Fast Love · George Michael

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-68, 70-80 and 82-116 -- 93.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
FAST LOVE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 3, 4 and 117.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 117
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 4 sections: 109 keep time, 4 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-116.

OUTRO
4 groovesES2DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fast Love?

105 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 Fast Love hard to play on drums?

40 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fast Love?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 3, 4 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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