Playground Love · Air

120 bars, 6:24, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

ElectronicUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 20-32 and 36-50, and 4 more places -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
PLAYGROUND LOVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 3 sections: 118 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-100.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Playground Love?

75 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 Playground Love hard to play on drums?

29 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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