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I Still Love You · KISS

EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGS1EW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Still Love You on drums

144 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 73 BPM, 5:57 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-87, toms through bars 88-91, snare through bars 92-96, hi-hat through bars 97-125 and ride through bars 126-144.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 26-44 and 55-57, and 9 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1...........2...........3...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----|
I Still Love You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 46, 48, 50, 52, 66 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-82 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Still Love You?

73 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Still Love You hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 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 Still Love You?

24 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 46, 48, 50, 52, 66 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED