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Fast Love · George Michael

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove E -- Outro
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OUTRO
4 groovesES2DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fast Love on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 2-117.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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