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One Night Love Affair · Bryan Adams

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAEVFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Night Love Affair on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60, ride through bars 61-76, hi-hat through bars 77-96 and ride through bars 97-141.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-23, and 6 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
One Night Love Affair -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 24, 40, 60, 68, 75 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- A, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-42 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-77 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-97 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-116 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is One Night Love Affair?

124 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 One Night Love Affair hard to play on drums?

60 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in One Night Love Affair?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 24, 40, 60, 68, 75 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED