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Love Song · 311

EXERCISE 3 OF 21
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
VERSE
PART S3
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesHBMS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Song on drums

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

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-45, silence through bars 46-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-52, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x--xxx-xx--x-x|
Love Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-50 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED