Love Will Keep Us Together · Captain & Tennille

110 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-9 and 12-14, and 8 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 19, 20, 39, 40, 52 and 14 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 14 sections: 68 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-33.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART V
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFALIAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Will Keep Us Together?

128 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 Love Will Keep Us Together hard to play on drums?

53 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Love Will Keep Us Together?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 19, 20, 39, 40, 52 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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