How to Love DMS · Tokio Hotel

75 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-29 and 33, and 6 more places -- 58.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
HOW TO LOVE DMS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 26, 38, 46, 59, 67 and 1 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 9 sections: 50 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

PART S2
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesDBS2S7S8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is How to Love DMS?

110 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 How to Love DMS hard to play on drums?

39 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 How to Love DMS?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 26, 38, 46, 59, 67 and 1 more.

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