Temple Of Love · Sisters Of Mercy

323 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 7:50 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
323
LENGTH
7:50
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-56 and 58-60, and 45 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
TEMPLE OF LOVE · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 322 and 323.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 322-323 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

323 bars across 3 sections: 318 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-161.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBIFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Temple Of Love?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Temple Of Love hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

323 bars, about 7:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, 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.

How many fills are in Temple Of Love?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 322 and 323.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 323 BARS ANALYSED
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