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Love Bites (So Do I) · Halestorm

EXERCISE 30 OF 47
Fill at bar 51 (a small one)
72 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Bites (So Do I) on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-18, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x--x-x--|
Love Bites (So Do I) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-65 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-32 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-40 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-48 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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