Lover Why · Century

75 bars, 4:21, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-25, 32 and 35-36, and 4 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 69 BPM
LOVER WHY · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 33, 53 and 60.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 6 sections: 63 keep time, 4 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-75.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lover Why?

69 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 Lover Why 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 Lover Why?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 33, 53 and 60.

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