I Love You Much Too Much · Carlos Santana

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-60 and 64-87 -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
I LOVE YOU MUCH TOO MUCH · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 21, 25, 36, 39 and 97.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 6 sections: 84 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-89.

PART B
PART C
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJBCNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Love You Much Too Much?

86 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 Love You Much Too Much hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I Love You Much Too Much?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 21, 25, 36, 39 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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