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Love Letter · Bonnie Raitt

Love Letter · Bonnie Raitt
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove A -- Outro
0 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 83 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Letter on drums

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

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
43/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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