Love Bomb · AC/DC

96 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-22, 28-46 and 49-63, and 1 more place -- 76.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
LOVE BOMB · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 5 sections: 85 keep time, 9 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-63.

PART C
CHORUS
5 groovesDCS2S4S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Bomb?

118 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 Bomb 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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