Lover, You Should've Come Over · Jeff Buckley

122 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 40 BPM, 9:13 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
40 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
9:13
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 1 more place -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 40 BPM
LOVER, YOU SHOULD'VE COME OVER · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 36, 46, 53, 55, 67 and 13 more.

LOOP · 40 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 40 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 40 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 40 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 11 sections: 81 keep time, 19 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-31.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AE
OUTRO
7 groovesCOAKLAE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lover, You Should've Come Over?

40 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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, You Should've Come Over hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 9:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Lover, You Should've Come Over?

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 36, 46, 53, 55, 67 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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