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

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove A -- Outro
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0 / 9 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---------------|
HH |x---x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x---------------|
I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED