Lovefool · The Cardigans

89 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-8 and 12-14, and 23 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
LOVEFOOL · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 3, 20, 21, 29, 41, 58 and 5 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 11 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-17.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lovefool?

112 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 Lovefool hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Lovefool?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 3, 20, 21, 29, 41, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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