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Still Loving You · Scorpions

EXERCISE 44 OF 66
Groove V
96 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART C
CHORUS
PART S5
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART X
OUTRO
9 groovesGCHXB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Loving You on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-36, silence through bars 37-45, hi-hat through bars 46-61 and ride through bars 62-85, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25-26, and 11 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Still Loving You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 20, 35, 53, 60, 61 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-30 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-53 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-66 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-95 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Still Loving You?

103 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 Still Loving You hard to play on drums?

42 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 12 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 Still Loving You?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 20, 35, 53, 60, 61 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED