For The Love of God · Steve Vai

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11, and 42 more places -- 63.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 133 and 134.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 133-134 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 2 sections: 84 keep time, 2 are fills, 47 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-132.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For The Love of God?

100 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 For The Love of God hard to play on drums?

29 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 For The Love of God?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 133 and 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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