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What About Love · Heart

EXERCISE 10 OF 29
Groove E -- Part E
54 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART A
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesICEPA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What About Love on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 44-46, and 6 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-------x-x-----|
What About Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 42, 43, 47 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 29-51 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is What About Love?

88 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 What About 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in What About Love?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 42, 43, 47 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED