LOS BRAVOS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Bring A Little Lovin'

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 17-20 and 24-40, and 1 more place -- 84.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
22/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 115 BPM
BRING A LITTLE LOVIN' · BAR 6

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many limbs land on the same note.

The whole song is 22 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 86 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

Tempo goes 86, 101 and 115 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Bring A Little Lovin' use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 115 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 84.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 5-12, 17-20, 24-40 and 43-66. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.

Is the beat in Bring A Little Lovin' hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED