Is This Love · Bob Marley and the Wailers

39 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
39
LENGTH
1:17
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-39 -- 76.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IS THIS LOVE · BARS 10-11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

39 bars across 2 sections: 36 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-39.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Is This Love?

120 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 Is This Love hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

39 bars, about 1:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Is This Love?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 39 BARS ANALYSED
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