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Love Bites · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 39 OF 44
Groove Q
174 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Bites on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-154, snare through bars 155-156 and hi-hat through bars 157-190.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
BD |--------x-------|
Love Bites -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- C, F, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-59 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 56-117 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 74-105 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 127-157 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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