Love song · Adele

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-14 and 28-37, and 6 more places -- 54.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LOVE SONG · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 11 sections: 92 keep time, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-88.

PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDECFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love song?

120 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 song hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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