Love Games · Level 42

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 9-22 and 29-30, and 7 more places -- 69.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 107 BPM
LOVE GAMES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 7, 31, 81, 89 and 96.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 5 sections: 99 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-80.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Games?

107 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 Games hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Love Games?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 7, 31, 81, 89 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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