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Lovers Rock · TV Girl

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Chorus 3
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesBDCEH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lovers Rock on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-34, silence through bars 35-36, toms through bars 37-52, hi-hat through bars 53-68 and silence through bars 69-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Lovers Rock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-35 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-53 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-85 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED