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ARROW OF LOVE · Electric Callboy

EXERCISE 4 OF 57
Fill at bar 27, 31, 59 and 63 (a small one)
63 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
COUNT-IN
PART G
PART J
PART G
PART J
PART C
PART N
CHORUS
PART V
OUTRO 2
13 groovesSGNJV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ARROW OF LOVE on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-33, silence through bars 34-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-41, snare through bars 42-73 and kick and crashes through bars 74-89, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 10 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
ARROW OF LOVE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 27, 31, 40 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, N, J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-28 -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-43 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-46 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-66 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ARROW OF LOVE?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is ARROW OF LOVE hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in ARROW OF LOVE?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 27, 31, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED