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Love Like An Outlaw · Dark Country Outlaws

Love Like An Outlaw · Dark Country Outlaws
EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove G -- Chorus 3
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PART D
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
12 groovesGDJMA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Like An Outlaw on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-47 and silence through bars 48-50, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 35-40 and 51-52, and 3 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- G, D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-25 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-47 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-85 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-108 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Love Like An Outlaw?

100 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 Like An Outlaw hard to play on drums?

38 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Like An Outlaw?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED