Love Machine · Girls Aloud

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

116 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

97

LENGTH

3:21

DIFFICULTY

46/100

snare through bars 2-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 5 more changes after that.

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x--xx-|
BD |x---x---x--x----|

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

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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. Bars 2-25 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 29-47 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part A and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.