I Will Always Love You · Kenny Rogers

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-78 and 80-91 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 83 BPM
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 51.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 3 sections: 76 keep time, 1 is a fill and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-91.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Will Always Love You?

83 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 Will Always Love You hard to play on drums?

29 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I Will Always Love You?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 51.

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