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I LOVE YOU · a flood of circle

I LOVE YOU · a flood of circle
EXERCISE 12 OF 64
Groove I -- Part I
139 / 220 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART C
PART I
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFIECB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 12
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I LOVE YOU on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, toms through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-45 and toms through bars 46-48, and 35 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |---x--------x-----------|
I LOVE YOU -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-25 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-57 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-85 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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