This Is Love (PJ Harvey) · PJ Harvey

102 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24, 29-52 and 73-80, and 1 more place -- 70.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
THIS IS LOVE (PJ HARVEY) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 82.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 10 sections: 82 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-52.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS6ACDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Is Love (PJ Harvey)?

112 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 This Is Love (PJ Harvey) 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in This Is Love (PJ Harvey)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 82.

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