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REAL LIFE LOVE · Speed

EXERCISE 2 OF 37
Groove AC -- Outro
12 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AC, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART A
PART O
PART V
PART AC
PART AF
CHORUS
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAJAAAACS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play REAL LIFE LOVE on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
87/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-19, toms through bars 20-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29 and ride through bars 30-34, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-46, 64 and 82-85, and 1 more place -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43                               44
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |-------x-------x-------x-------x|-----x-----x-------x---x-------x|
SD |---------------x----------------|---------------x-----------x-x--|
BD |---x---x-----------x-------x---x|-----x-----x-------x---x-------x|
REAL LIFE LOVE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-48 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part AC -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is REAL LIFE LOVE?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 REAL LIFE LOVE hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 16 sittings, about 21 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 REAL LIFE LOVE?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED