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Love Rears Its Ugly Head · Living Colour

EXERCISE 26 OF 61
Fill at bar 48 (a small one)
63 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Rears Its Ugly Head on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-52, snare through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-73, toms through bars 74-75 and ride through bars 76-80, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----x-----------------------|
Love Rears Its Ugly Head -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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, L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AH -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part AH and Part AK -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED