Love Bites (So Do I) · Halestorm

98 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 23-29 and 44-46, and 7 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
LOVE BITES (SO DO I) · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 18, 22 and 30 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 3-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 34-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 36 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-30.

CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGIJLTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Bites (So Do I)?

125 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 (So Do I) hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bites (So Do I)?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 18, 22 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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