Livin' On Love · Alan Jackson

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 34-40 and 58-71, and 2 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LIVIN' ON LOVE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 41, 49, 72, 73, 88 and 3 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 86 keep time and 9 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART B
OUTRO
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Livin' On Love?

120 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 Livin' On Love hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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 Livin' On Love?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 41, 49, 72, 73, 88 and 3 more.

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