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Love Story · Novembre

Love Story · Novembre
EXERCISE 28 OF 65
Join Chorus 2 to Part O (bars 55-57)
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0 / 65 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART O
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Story on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-47, toms through bars 48-50, hi-hat through bars 51-86 and ride through bars 87-89, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-33 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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