Kinky Love · Pale Saints

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 46-52 and 54-55, and 7 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
KINKY LOVE · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 7 sections: 78 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-29.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kinky Love?

90 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 Kinky 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Kinky Love?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

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