Modern Love · David Bowie

196 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PopRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 13-14, and 68 more places -- 49.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MODERN LOVE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 132, 156 and 180.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 13 sections: 176 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-96.

PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesDES2S13S1Fill 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?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Modern Love?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 132, 156 and 180.

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