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What Is Love · Haddaway

What Is Love · Haddaway
EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 128 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesDS1BCS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What Is Love on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-85, silence through bars 86-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-145.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-85 and 90-145 -- 94.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
What Is Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-14 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is What Is Love?

126 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 Is Love hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED