Long Way To Love · Britny Fox

124 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 26 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 123 BPM
LONG WAY TO LOVE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 6, 16, 32, 40, 56, 60 and 17 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 5 sections: 70 keep time, 23 are fills, 24 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCUS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Way To Love?

123 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 Long Way To Love hard to play on drums?

61 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Long Way To Love?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 6, 16, 32, 40, 56, 60 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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