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Light My Love · Greta Van Fleet

EXERCISE 8 OF 53
Groove C -- Outro
41 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, OUTRO
PART S2
CHORUS
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGSICN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Light My Love on drums

97 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 68 BPM, 4:41 of playing on crash, ride, 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 3-11, hi-hat through bars 12-27 and ride through bars 28-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 28-32 and 34, and 11 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    8
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---|
Light My Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 7, 33, 35 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 4-20 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-27 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Light My Love?

68 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Light My Love hard to play on drums?

60 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Light My Love?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 7, 33, 35 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED