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Love Child · Accept

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove F -- Part F
0 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT
PART B
PART I
PART F
CHORUS
PART G
PART F
PART Q
PART I
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKQBIF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Child on drums

146 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-64, snare through bars 65-67, hi-hat through bars 68-98, snare through bars 99-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-142, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 20, and 13 more places -- 17.9% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Love Child -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 33, 47, 65 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-30 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-102 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-53 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Love Child?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Love Child hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Child?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 33, 47, 65 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED