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What You Won't Do for Love · Bobby Caldwell

What You Won't Do for Love · Bobby Caldwell
EXERCISE 3 OF 20
Groove B -- Part B
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0 / 20 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
OUTRO
3 groovesEFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What You Won't Do for Love on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-70 and snare through bars 71-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-13, 17-19 and 35-37, and 3 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx----x--|
What You Won't Do for Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 71 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-42 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-70 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is What You Won't Do for Love?

86 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 You Won't Do for Love hard to play on drums?

53 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 What You Won't Do for Love?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 71 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED