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Still Loving You · Sonata Arctica

EXERCISE 36 OF 42
Join Chorus 3 to Part Q (bars 100-102)
110 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART Q
PART D
CHORUS
PART S6
PART O
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART Q
14 groovesFDAQO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Loving You on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-21, ride through bars 22-35, toms through bars 36-38 and silence through bars 39-43, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-12, 14-20 and 46-52, and 2 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 21, 30, 36, 37, 44 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, Q -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-31 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S6 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part S6 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-89 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 98-118 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Still Loving You?

95 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 21, 30, 36, 37, 44 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED