Old Fashioned Love Song Bass · Three Dog Night

140 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 3:32 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-70, 73-102 and 105-139 -- 73.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
OLD FASHIONED LOVE SONG BASS · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 17, 32 and 140.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 140
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 6 sections: 124 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-139.

PART C
PART E
PART C
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Old Fashioned Love Song Bass?

100 BPM, in 2/4, 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 Old Fashioned Love Song Bass hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Old Fashioned Love Song Bass?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 17, 32 and 140.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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