Love Exchange Failure · White Ward

252 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 10:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
10:05
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-32 and 37-56 -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
LOVE EXCHANGE FAILURE · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 64, 68, 70, 72, 76, 80 and 27 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

252 bars across 24 sections: 146 keep time, 34 are fills, 32 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

PART D
PART H
PART O
PART S12
PART S
CHORUS
OUTRO
21 groovesZDOSH+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Exchange Failure?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Exchange Failure hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 10:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 28 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Exchange Failure?

22 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 64, 68, 70, 72, 76, 80 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED
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