Love Story · Novembre

135 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-31, 37-42 and 99-105, and 4 more places -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
LOVE STORY · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 34, 46 and 26 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 13 sections: 81 keep time, 32 are fills, 9 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-31.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART O
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGOBAHH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Story?

135 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 Story hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Love Story?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 34, 46 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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