Calling Dr Love · KISS

115 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-18, 29-45 and 60-63, and 1 more place -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 121 BPM
CALLING DR LOVE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 21, 47, 48, 55, 56 and 10 more.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BARS 55-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 121 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 9 sections: 84 keep time, 16 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-45.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesDSIAT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Calling Dr Love?

121 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 Calling Dr Love hard to play on drums?

62 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Calling Dr Love?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 21, 47, 48, 55, 56 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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