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How to Love DMS · Tokio Hotel

EXERCISE 19 OF 20
Join Chorus 2 to Break 2 (bars 49-51)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK 2
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How to Love DMS on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-50, silence through bars 51-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-75.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-27 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-47 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED