Love Letter · Enjoy

12 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
12
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10 -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
LOVE LETTER · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 2 and 12.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

12 bars across 2 sections: 9 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-11.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Letter?

140 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?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

12 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 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 Letter?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 2 and 12.

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