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Love Bites (Remastered 2017) · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 31 OF 53
Groove O
164 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART C
PART D
PART J
PART C
PART E
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBCEFD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Bites (Remastered 2017) on drums

190 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

36 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
5:51
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-35, hi-hat through bars 36-60, snare through bars 61-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-154, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 36-43 and 73, and 9 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |--------x-------|
Love Bites (Remastered 2017) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 60, 64, 104, 124, 132, 148 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 54-70 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-111 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 108-122 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 126-155 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Love Bites (Remastered 2017)?

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 (Remastered 2017) hard to play on drums?

36 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Love Bites (Remastered 2017)?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 60, 64, 104, 124, 132, 148 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED