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Love On The Catwalk · Her Words Kill

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
PART C
PART E
PART G
PART M
PART O
PART B
CHORUS
PART W
OUTRO
15 groovesS12BGMW+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love On The Catwalk on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-37, silence through bars 38-44, snare through bars 45-61, silence through bars 62-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-85, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-23 and 25, and 4 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Love On The Catwalk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 28, 36, 48, 51, 52, 56 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- B, M -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-61 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-93 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-100 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-131 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Love On The Catwalk?

133 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 On The Catwalk hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Love On The Catwalk?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 28, 36, 48, 51, 52, 56 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED