No Ordinary Love · Sade

149 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 7:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
7:11
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 7 more places -- 47% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 83 BPM
NO ORDINARY LOVE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 12 sections: 133 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-79.

VERSE
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART F
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDFIA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Ordinary Love?

83 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 No Ordinary Love hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 7:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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