The Love Song · Marilyn Manson

54 bars, 3:05, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

MetalElectronicUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10, 19-26 and 35-40 -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
THE LOVE SONG · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 18.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 7 sections: 46 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Love Song?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Love Song hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Love Song?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 18.

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