Reason to Love · Victory

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-27 and 33-35, and 17 more places -- 50.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
REASON TO LOVE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 18 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 13 sections: 78 keep time, 24 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
4 groovesCES2S12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reason to Love?

96 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 Reason to Love hard to play on drums?

45 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Reason to Love?

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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