Big Love · Mr. Big

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 6 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BIG LOVE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 12, 24, 26 and 22 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 18 sections: 76 keep time and 28 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-115.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesGOBFTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big Love?

100 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 Big Love hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Big Love?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 12, 24, 26 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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