As Long As It's Not About Love · Dio

73 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 26 and 28, and 13 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
AS LONG AS IT'S NOT ABOUT LOVE · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 23, 27, 29, 31, 36, 40 and 16 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 9 sections: 32 keep time, 22 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-8.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART A
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
7 groovesCDAS5S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As Long As It's Not About Love?

110 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 As Long As It's Not About Love hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in As Long As It's Not About Love?

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 23, 27, 29, 31, 36, 40 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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