Love Me Again · John Newman

110 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and floor tom.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-39, 44-51 and 61-68, and 1 more place -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
LOVE ME AGAIN · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 14 sections: 80 keep time, 1 is a fill and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-88.

PART S2
PART A
BREAK 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCDAS2S6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Me Again?

126 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 Me Again hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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