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Lovesong · The Cure

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove C -- Outro
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lovesong on drums

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

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-118 and snare through bars 119-122.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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