My Love, My Life · ABBA

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32 and 47-66 -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
MY LOVE, MY LIFE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 5 sections: 57 keep time, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-66.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCADS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Love, My Life?

80 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 My Love, My Life hard to play on drums?

36 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?

67 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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