I LOVE YOU · a flood of circle

220 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 34 and 36, and 45 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
I LOVE YOU · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 23, 24, 31, 32, 47 and 23 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 20 sections: 102 keep time, 29 are fills, 63 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-126.

PART C
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFIECB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I LOVE YOU?

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

Is I LOVE YOU hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 YOU?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 23, 24, 31, 32, 47 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
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