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Love Will Keep Us Alive · Scorpions

EXERCISE 10 OF 23
Run D1 · Part D (bars 10-25)
115 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Will Keep Us Alive on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-39, ride through bars 40-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-75, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-37, 64-75 and 86-92, and 2 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Love Will Keep Us Alive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 85, 97, 101 and 123.

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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-86 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 82-131 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Love Will Keep Us Alive?

117 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Will Keep Us Alive hard to play on drums?

44 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Will Keep Us Alive?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 85, 97, 101 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED