Song For The Lovers · Richard Ashcroft

45 bars, 3:16, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Ride, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
22/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-45 -- 90.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 55 BPM
SONG FOR THE LOVERS · BAR 7
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 3 sections: 42 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-45.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song For The Lovers?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Song For The Lovers hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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