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love. · Wave To Earth

EXERCISE 6 OF 11
Groove D
73 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play love. on drums

77 bars, 4:58, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
37/100

ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25 and ride through bars 26-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 26-43 and 45-77 -- 77.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
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 10 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 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is love.?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is love. hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED