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Sowing The Seeds Of Love · Tears For Fears

EXERCISE 18 OF 35
Join Chorus to Part F (bars 78-80)
103 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sowing The Seeds Of Love on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
38/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-60, toms through bars 61-62, hi-hat through bars 63-64, toms through bars 65-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-81, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 12-13 and 15-16, and 13 more places -- 65.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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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-----|
Sowing The Seeds Of Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 11, 27, 52, 61, 62 and 9 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 78-99 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 96-112 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sowing The Seeds Of Love?

85 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 Sowing The Seeds Of Love hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sowing The Seeds Of Love?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 11, 27, 52, 61, 62 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED