Terminal Love · The Boys

116 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

Punk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-32, 34-64 and 66-81, and 3 more places -- 78.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
TERMINAL LOVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 115 and 116.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 115-116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars: 112 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-112.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Terminal Love?

130 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 Terminal Love hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Terminal Love?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 115 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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