Love Grows Drums · Edison Lighthouse

75 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11 and 13-16, and 8 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
LOVE GROWS DRUMS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 52, 53 and 61.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 4 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-46.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDEBNF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Grows Drums?

110 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 Grows Drums hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Grows Drums?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 52, 53 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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