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Your love is king · Sade

EXERCISE 12 OF 15
2-bar fill at bar 84
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0 / 15 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your love is king on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 2-49, ride through bars 50-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-18, 20-29 and 31-48 -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x----x----x----x----x----x----x----x----x----x----x----x--------|
SD |---------------r---------x-------------------r------------------|
BD |x------------------------x--------------------------------------|
Your love is king -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 85.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Your love is king?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Your love is king hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Your love is king?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED