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Isn't She Lovely · Stevie Wonder

EXERCISE 7 OF 47
Run D1 · Part D (bars 4-10)
83 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART G
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesS7TGQD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Isn't She Lovely on drums

195 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 178 BPM, 6:34 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-130 and silence through bars 131-195.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-70, 72-74 and 76, and 12 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-g-g-o---o-o-g-g-o-g-g-|
SD |g---g-x-g-g-g---g-x-g-g-|
BD |x---------x-x---x-----x-|
Isn't She Lovely -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 19, 27, 34, 35, 43 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Isn't She Lovely?

178 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Isn't She Lovely hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Isn't She Lovely?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 19, 27, 34, 35, 43 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED