Love Machine · Girls Aloud

97 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 33-37 and 39-40, and 5 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
LOVE MACHINE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 30.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 10 sections: 78 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-92.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBAIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Machine?

116 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 Machine hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Love Machine?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 30.

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