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Interstate Love Song · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove F -- Part F
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PART B
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesLFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Interstate Love Song on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, ride through bars 31-40, hi-hat through bars 41-55, ride through bars 56-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12 and 15-16, and 6 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |-g--xg---g--x--g|
BD |x-xx---x--x--x--|
Interstate Love Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 13, 17, 24, 30, 39 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Interstate Love Song?

85 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 Interstate Love Song hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Interstate Love Song?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 13, 17, 24, 30, 39 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED