Is This Love · Whitesnake

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-9, 12-17 and 20-25, and 12 more places -- 72.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 91 BPM
IS THIS LOVE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 93.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 2 sections: 97 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-92.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Is This Love?

91 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Is This Love?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 93.

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