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Calling Dr Love · KISS

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Calling Dr Love on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-19, toms through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-27, hi-hat through bars 28-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x--g-g--x---|
BD |--x-------x---x-|
Calling Dr Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, S -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-53 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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