Could You Be Loved · Bob Marley & The Wailers

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-103 -- 92.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
COULD YOU BE LOVED · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 104.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 2 sections: 102 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-103.

OUTRO
2 groovesES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Could You Be Loved?

104 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 Could You Be Loved hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Could You Be Loved?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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