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Love Is Stronger Than Justice · Sting

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove I -- Chorus 2
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0 / 38 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
BREAK 2
9 groovesIS13GFH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Is Stronger Than Justice on drums

151 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 4:58 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 2-30, snare through bars 31-37, hi-hat through bars 38-55, snare through bars 56-69, ride through bars 70-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 56-68 and 86-112 -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Love Is Stronger Than Justice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 3, 41, 69 and 77.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- I, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-38 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-70 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-89 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Love Is Stronger Than Justice?

170 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Stronger Than Justice hard to play on drums?

41 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Stronger Than Justice?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 3, 41, 69 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED