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This Love · Maroon 5

EXERCISE 6 OF 24
Groove A -- Chorus
63 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Love on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 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
82
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, ride through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72 and ride through bars 73-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 19 more places -- 26.8% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x--x-xx-x--x--|
This Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 24, 36, 44, 48, 52 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 30-49 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-74 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is This Love?

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 This Love hard to play on drums?

61 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in This Love?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 24, 36, 44, 48, 52 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED