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EXERCISE 17 OF 49
Join Part L to Part Q (bars 21-23)
98 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART Q
CHORUS
PART L
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART V
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGVQAKL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Screaming For A Love-bite on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-11, toms through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-43, toms through bars 44-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 23-24 and 30-32, and 15 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 11, 21, 27, 35, 40, 53 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G, K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-28 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Screaming For A Love-bite?

140 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 Screaming For A Love-bite hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Screaming For A Love-bite?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 11, 21, 27, 35, 40, 53 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED