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Love Like Blood · Killing Joke

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove E -- Verse
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VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
4 groovesEDS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Like Blood on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-137.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 14-20 and 22-28, and 9 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |-xx-----x------x|
Love Like Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 29, 33, 41, 49, 89 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-125 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Love Like Blood?

118 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 Blood hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Like Blood?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 29, 33, 41, 49, 89 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED