Love Letter · Bonnie Raitt

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-21, 23-25 and 27-33, and 9 more places -- 87.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
LOVE LETTER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 34, 42, 50, 58, 66 and 2 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars: 87 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Letter?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Letter hard to play on drums?

43 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Love Letter?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 34, 42, 50, 58, 66 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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