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Love Hurts · Nazareth

EXERCISE 14 OF 15
Run E2 · Outro 2 (bars 24-75)
70 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesES2S4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Hurts on drums

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.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-21, silence through bars 22-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-75.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Love Hurts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-44 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED