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As Long As You Love Me · Backstreet Boys

EXERCISE 12 OF 14
Run C2 · Part C (bars 58-60)
71 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART S1
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play As Long As You Love Me on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
44/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-61, silence through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-85.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxx-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
As Long As You Love Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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, C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-60 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED