Love And Affection · Def Leppard

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO

104 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

117

LENGTH

4:30

DIFFICULTY

47/100

ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-85, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 9 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 25, 48, 49, 84, 85 and 1 more.

It cuts the song into 21 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Bars 57-97 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.