Love Bites · Def Leppard

190 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 19 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
LOVE BITES · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 44, 60, 64, 68, 96, 104 and 11 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 131-132 · LANDS ON BAR 133 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 13 sections: 132 keep time, 17 are fills, 17 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-40.

PART C
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesGCFJB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Bites?

130 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 Bites hard to play on drums?

43 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Love Bites?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 44, 60, 64, 68, 96, 104 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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