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Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' · Journey

EXERCISE 11 OF 23
Groove F -- Part F
36 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesAS5EFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, ride through bars 20-26, hi-hat through bars 27-33, ride through bars 34-44 and silence through bars 45-66.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-34 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-27 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 25-45 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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