If You Loved Me Then · Bleeding Verse, Austin James

139 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-24, 31-32 and 59-72 -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
IF YOU LOVED ME THEN · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 38, 42, 46, 49, 88, 92 and 7 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 99-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 133-134 · LANDS ON BAR 135 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 8 sections: 46 keep time, 13 are fills, 43 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S4
PART B
PART F
OUTRO
7 groovesS8BS4FS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If You Loved Me Then?

145 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 If You Loved Me Then hard to play on drums?

33 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in If You Loved Me Then?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 38, 42, 46, 49, 88, 92 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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