Lay All Your Love On Me · ABBA

152 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13 and 15, and 50 more places -- 62.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 2 sections: 144 keep time, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-152.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lay All Your Love On Me?

135 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 Lay All Your Love On Me hard to play on drums?

57 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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