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Lovefool · The Cardigans

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lovefool on drums

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

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
77/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |-goo-gooxgoo-goo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Lovefool -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-42 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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