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Lover, You Should've Come Over · Jeff Buckley

EXERCISE 23 OF 65
Run L1 · Part L (bars 37-51)
82 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lover, You Should've Come Over on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
40 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
9:13
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-36, hi-hat through bars 37-46, ride through bars 47-106, toms through bars 107-108 and ride through bars 109-122.

The beat

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.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........
RD |g-----------------------------------|
SD |------------------r-----------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------|
HF |------------------x-----------------|
Lover, You Should've Come Over -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- C, O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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