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Love Again · Dua Lipa

EXERCISE 11 OF 34
2-bar fill at bar 40 and 1 more
72 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 2, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBOGS1K+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Again on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-35, silence through bars 36-41, hi-hat through bars 42-65, toms through bars 66-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-85, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 24-30 and 32-35, and 1 more place -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Love Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 40, 41, 45, 49, 66 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-54 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 64-77 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-90 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-114 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Love Again?

116 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 Love Again hard to play on drums?

51 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Love Again?

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 40, 41, 45, 49, 66 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED