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Fool For Your Loving · Whitesnake

EXERCISE 6 OF 34
Join Break to Part B (bars 3-5)
45 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, PART B
BREAK
PART B
CHORUS
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO 2
7 groovesSBMAAAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fool For Your Loving on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
95/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 32 and 36, and 17 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |---x-----------------------------------------x--|
HH |---------------x-----x-----x-----x-----x--------|
SD |---------------x-----------------------x--------|
BD |---x-----------------------x-----------------x--|
Fool For Your Loving -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fool For Your Loving?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Fool For Your Loving hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 19 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED