Love Walks In · Van Halen

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 8 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
LOVE WALKS IN · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 44, 56, 84 and 4 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 19 sections: 53 keep time, 10 are fills, 25 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-15.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBFLAM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Walks In?

88 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 Walks In hard to play on drums?

62 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Walks In?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 44, 56, 84 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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