It's Not Love · Dokken

142 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 25-30 and 49-51, and 3 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
IT'S NOT LOVE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 44, 68, 72, 82, 116 and 4 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 14 sections: 105 keep time, 10 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-58.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesDBMUQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It's Not Love?

116 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 It's Not Love hard to play on drums?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 It's Not Love?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 44, 68, 72, 82, 116 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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