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My Lovely Man · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 42 PASSED · 55 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGANPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Lovely Man on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-74, ride through bars 75-82, hi-hat through bars 83-127 and ride through bars 128-131.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 11 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    23
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
My Lovely Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 36, 66, 74 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-50 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Lovely Man?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 My Lovely Man hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 My Lovely Man?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 36, 66, 74 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED