L-O-V-E · Nat King Cole

49 bars, 2:37, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 16-18 and 25-36 -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
L-O-V-E · BAR 16
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 47.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 6 sections: 34 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-38.

COUNT-IN
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is L-O-V-E?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is L-O-V-E hard to play on drums?

53 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 L-O-V-E?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 47.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 49 BARS ANALYSED
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