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Less than a Lover · jennie

EXERCISE 6 OF 6
Play the whole song with the record
60 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 70 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1S5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Less than a Lover on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:18 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-60, silence through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-27 and 29-42, and 2 more places -- 95.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Less than a Lover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Less than a Lover?

122 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 Less than a Lover 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?

70 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED