I Love It Loud · KISS

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 10 and 13-14, and 15 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 89 BPM
I LOVE IT LOUD · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 29, 32, 33 and 26 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 8 sections: 51 keep time and 32 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Love It Loud?

89 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 I Love It Loud hard to play on drums?

42 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Love It Loud?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 29, 32, 33 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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