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Love Is For Suckers · Twisted Sister

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Is For Suckers on drums

142 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-108, snare through bars 109-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-142.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-9 and 12, and 33 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 22, 29, 30 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-40 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-99 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Love Is For Suckers?

168 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 For Suckers hard to play on drums?

63 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Love Is For Suckers?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 22, 29, 30 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED