One More Love Song · Mac Demarco

70 bars, 4:00, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-15, and 8 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
ONE MORE LOVE SONG · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 5 sections: 63 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-65.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One More Love Song?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is One More Love Song hard to play on drums?

40 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?

70 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 One More Love Song?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

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