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.

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

TEMPO

88 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

109

LENGTH

4:57

DIFFICULTY

62/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 10 more changes after that.

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.

    13
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |X-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------------|

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

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- S (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 35-57 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
7. Through Part S11 and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
8. Bars 59-94 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.