As Long As You Love Me · Backstreet Boys

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 31 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 33.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 8 sections: 64 keep time, 1 is a fill, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-57.

PART S1
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As Long As You Love Me?

98 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 As Long As You Love Me 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 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 As Long As You Love Me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 33.

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