Consuming Love · Ascelia

102 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on ride, snare, high tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-102 -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CONSUMING LOVE · BAR 79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 6 sections: 52 keep time and 48 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-102.

COUNT-IN
PART B
BREAK
PART D
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS3FBS1D+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Consuming Love?

120 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 Consuming Love hard to play on drums?

30 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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