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I Love You · Fontaines DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
PART D
PART B
PART F
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJBFHD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Love You on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-37, silence through bars 38-41 and toms through bars 42-46, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 14-16 and 22-28, and 4 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-92 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Love You?

115 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 You hard to play on drums?

40 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 You?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED