I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song · Jim Croce

80 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 2:23 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9 and 11, and 15 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
I'LL HAVE TO SAY I LOVE YOU IN A SONG · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars: 80 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-80.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song?

134 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 I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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