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Reason to Love · Victory
EXERCISE 18 OF 26
Groove M
112 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 5
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
4 groovesCES2S12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reason to Love on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-86, ride through bars 87-88, hi-hat through bars 89-112, ride through bars 113-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-123.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C, E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-37 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-41 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 61-99 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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