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I Want To Know What Love Is · Foreigner

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove N -- Outro 2
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PART B
VERSE
PART B
VERSE 2
PART D
PART G
VERSE 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesNDABGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Want To Know What Love Is on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-41, hi-hat through bars 42-58 and ride through bars 59-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-66, 68-74 and 77-83, and 1 more place -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
I Want To Know What Love Is -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40 and 93.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- N, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse 2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-75 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-63 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Want To Know What Love Is?

81 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 Want To Know What Love Is hard to play on drums?

53 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Want To Know What Love Is?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED