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Lovers Of Loving Love · The Aquabats!

EXERCISE 29 OF 38
Fill at bar 73 (a small one)
95 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGDMJR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lovers Of Loving Love on drums

115 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
54/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-65 and toms through bars 66-73, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 58-65 -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Lovers Of Loving Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 57, 73 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-69 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-110 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lovers Of Loving Love?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lovers Of Loving Love hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Lovers Of Loving Love?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 57, 73 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED