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No Ordinary Love · Sade

EXERCISE 21 OF 29
Join Part F to Part G (bars 119-121)
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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
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Ordinary Love on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
7:11
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, snare through bars 24-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-149.

The beat

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.

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SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---xxxx--x----x|
HF |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
No Ordinary Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-44 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 96-104 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 104-121 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 117-132 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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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