Newlove · sewerslvt

132 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-98 and 101-130 -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NEWLOVE · BAR 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 20, 35, 36, 99, 100 and 2 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 6 sections: 117 keep time, 8 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-67.

PART C
PART B
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesJGBCS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Newlove?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Newlove hard to play on drums?

58 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 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 Newlove?

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 20, 35, 36, 99, 100 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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