Good Lovin' · grateful dead

260 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 5:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 90-91 and 93-95, and 4 more places -- 6.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
GOOD LOVIN' · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 52, 54, 64, 66, 86, 102 and 4 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

260 bars across 27 sections: 178 keep time, 10 are fills and 33 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-34.

PART E
PART T
PART AM
PART AV
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO 2
20 groovesAADTEAM+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Good Lovin'?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Good Lovin' hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

260 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 102 exercises over 33 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Good Lovin'?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 52, 54, 64, 66, 86, 102 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 260 BARS ANALYSED
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