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Love · Zoé

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEOS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, silence through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, toms through bars 35-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 12 and 14-15, and 2 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Love -- 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 20, 21, 22, 23 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-35 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-53 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Love?

79 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 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED