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Love on the brain · Rhianna

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADES2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love on the brain on drums

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

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
28/100

hi-hat through bars 1-97, snare through bars 98-101, toms through bars 102-103 and hi-hat through bars 104-119.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
Love on the brain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 55-90 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 96-119 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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