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So This Is Love? · Van Halen

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Fill at bar 1 (a small one)
88 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCWBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So This Is Love? on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-41, ride through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-57, toms through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-82, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-16, 24 and 26-29, and 8 more places -- 69.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------X-----------X-----|
BD |x--x-----x--x--x-----x--|
So This Is Love? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 17, 20, 21, 22, 25 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is So This Is Love??

153 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 So This Is Love? hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 So This Is Love??

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 17, 20, 21, 22, 25 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED