Modern Love · David Bowie

169 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 40 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MODERN LOVE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 134, 142, 150 and 158.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 142 · LANDS ON BAR 143
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 150 · LANDS ON BAR 151
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 10 sections: 149 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-70.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART C
OUTRO
8 groovesFEBMC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Modern Love?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Modern Love hard to play on drums?

56 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Modern Love?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 134, 142, 150 and 158.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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