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Love Is Dead · B'Z

EXERCISE 9 OF 60
Groove G
68 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Is Dead on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 2-91, ride through bars 92-98, hi-hat through bars 99-107, silence through bars 108-112, snare through bars 113-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-131, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x----------------------x|
HH |---x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x----------x---x-------x|
Love Is Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-84 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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