Love Song · 311

60 bars, 3:27, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21, 30-35 and 37-44, and 1 more place -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 69 BPM
LOVE SONG · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 5, 48 and 52.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 5 sections: 49 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-44.

CHORUS
VERSE
PART S3
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesHBMS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Song?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Song hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Love Song?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 5, 48 and 52.

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