Love Rears Its Ugly Head · Living Colour

102 bars, 4:49, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 14 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
LOVE REARS ITS UGLY HEAD · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 24, 26, 38 and 16 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 9 sections: 62 keep time, 22 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-35.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART AK
PART AQ
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCLAHAKAQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Rears Its Ugly Head?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Love Rears Its Ugly Head hard to play on drums?

61 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Love Rears Its Ugly Head?

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 24, 26, 38 and 16 more.

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