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Love To Love · UFO

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove H -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHDABE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love To Love on drums

284 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 7:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
284
LENGTH
7:29
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-33, hi-hat through bars 34-76, silence through bars 77-83, hi-hat through bars 84-159 and kick and crashes through bars 160-167, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 84-90, 92-98 and 100-106, and 8 more places -- 59.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    84           85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-----------|------------|
HH |----x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------------|x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x---x-|----------x-|
Love To Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-160 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Love To Love?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 To Love hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

284 bars, about 7:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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