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I Love You Much Too Much · Carlos Santana

EXERCISE 17 OF 26
Groove I
83 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Love You Much Too Much on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-97.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x-gxg--|
BD |x-----x---------|
I Love You Much Too Much -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- J, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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