Love Hurts · Nazareth

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 25-36 and 41-42, and 8 more places -- 68.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
LOVE HURTS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 7, 39, 43 and 57.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 5 sections: 54 keep time, 4 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-70.

PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesES2S4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Hurts?

80 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 Hurts hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hurts?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 7, 39, 43 and 57.

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