love is embarrassing. · Olivia Rodrigo

101 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-16 and 18-20, and 20 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
LOVE IS EMBARRASSING. · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 29, 33, 53, 61, 69 and 4 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 3 sections: 89 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is love is embarrassing.?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is love is embarrassing. hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 is embarrassing.?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 29, 33, 53, 61, 69 and 4 more.

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