"What is Love?" · TWICE

146 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17-19 and 21-28, and 8 more places -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
"WHAT IS LOVE?" · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 146.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 146
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 14 sections: 110 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-103.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART S11
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCGKBS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "What is Love?"?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is "What is Love?" hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 "What is Love?"?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 146.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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