Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' · Journey

66 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 106 BPM, 3:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10, 12-17 and 27-30, and 1 more place -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
LOVIN', TOUCHIN', SQUEEZIN' · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 19, 25, 26, 31, 33 and 1 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 5 sections: 34 keep time, 7 are fills and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesAS5EFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'?

106 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' hard to play on drums?

45 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 19, 25, 26, 31, 33 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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