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I dont want a lover · Texas

EXERCISE 6 OF 12
Groove E
125 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I dont want a lover on drums

144 bars, 9:36, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
9:36
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-144.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 34-35 and 38-39, and 12 more places -- 79.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
I dont want a lover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 48, 56, 64 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I dont want a lover?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I dont want a lover hard to play on drums?

37 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 9:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 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 I dont want a lover?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 48, 56, 64 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED