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Love? · Strapping Young Lad

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCQIEA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love? on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-54, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 25-27 and 29-32, and 11 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x-----------x---|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x-------x--x-x--x--x-x--x-----------x-----------|
Love? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 24, 28, 98 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-29 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-73 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Love??

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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? hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Love??

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 24, 28, 98 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED