Love Is Dead · B'Z

148 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10 and 12, and 25 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
LOVE IS DEAD · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 30, 31, 39, 55, 62, 63 and 20 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 14 sections: 104 keep time, 26 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-54.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCJAMAB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Is Dead?

104 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 Is Dead hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Is Dead?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 30, 31, 39, 55, 62, 63 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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