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Love Me Again · John Newman

Love Me Again · John Newman
EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Me Again on drums

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

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-21, toms through bars 22-23, silence through bars 24-31, ride through bars 32-39 and toms through bars 40-43, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |o-------------o-|
SD |x---x--x-x--x---|
FT |x-----x-x-x---x-|
Love Me Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 31-47 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED