Lovers Rock · TV Girl

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 13-16 and 21-34, and 2 more places -- 60.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
LOVERS ROCK · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 13 sections: 72 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-68.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesBDCEH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lovers Rock?

105 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 Lovers Rock hard to play on drums?

51 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?

88 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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