Hang On To Your Love · Sade

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 37 more places -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 107 BPM
HANG ON TO YOUR LOVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 41, 65, 81, 105 and 113.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 3 sections: 113 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-37.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hang On To Your Love?

107 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 Hang On To Your Love hard to play on drums?

41 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hang On To Your Love?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 41, 65, 81, 105 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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