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Not Another Song About Love · Hollywood Ending

Not Another Song About Love · Hollywood Ending
EXERCISE 38 OF 45
Run C2 · Outro (bars 103-111)
105 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDKCBS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Another Song About Love on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-72, toms through bars 73-80, hi-hat through bars 81-89, silence through bars 90-93 and toms through bars 94-99, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 21 and 25, and 18 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Not Another Song About Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 23, 32, 48, 56, 64, 72 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-52 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-107 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Not Another Song About Love?

130 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 Not Another Song About Love hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Not Another Song About Love?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 23, 32, 48, 56, 64, 72 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED