Words Of Love · The Beatles

64 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:06 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 10-31 and 34-39, and 1 more place -- 90.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
WORDS OF LOVE · BAR 4
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 2 sections: 63 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-64.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Words Of Love?

122 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 Words Of Love hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 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.

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