Love-Hate-Sex-Pain · Godsmack

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 19 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
LOVE-HATE-SEX-PAIN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 22 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 9 sections: 73 keep time, 28 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-103.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECLAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love-Hate-Sex-Pain?

92 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-Hate-Sex-Pain hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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-Hate-Sex-Pain?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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