Lovesong · The Cure

122 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 12-18 and 20-33, and 9 more places -- 77.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
LOVESONG · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 34, 42, 58, 66 and 4 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 2 sections: 106 keep time, 10 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-33.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lovesong?

140 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 Lovesong hard to play on drums?

53 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Lovesong?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 34, 42, 58, 66 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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