Love on the brain · Rhianna

119 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 3:40 of playing on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-35, 37-39 and 41-55, and 3 more places -- 66.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
LOVE ON THE BRAIN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 119.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 119
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 6 sections: 113 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-56.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADES2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love on the brain?

85 BPM, in 3/4, 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 on the brain hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Love on the brain?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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