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Love Lost In a Hail of Gun Fire · Bleeding Through

EXERCISE 1 OF 112
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART I
PART AO
PART BE
12 groovesFIBEAOO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 33
LAND · 33
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Lost In a Hail of Gun Fire on drums

213 bars at 238 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
238 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-19, snare through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-48 and snare through bars 49-51, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 22-24, and 11 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Love Lost In a Hail of Gun Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

33 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 68 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-46 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-60 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Love Lost In a Hail of Gun Fire?

238 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Love Lost In a Hail of Gun Fire hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lost In a Hail of Gun Fire?

33 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED