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Big Love · Mr. Big

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 51 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGOBFTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big Love on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-34, hi-hat through bars 35-51 and ride through bars 52-61, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-o-x-x-x-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Big Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G, O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-31 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-40 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-70 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-76 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-100 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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