She Will Be Loved · Maroon 5

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-32 and 50-56, and 6 more places -- 52.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 101 BPM
SHE WILL BE LOVED · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 49.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 93 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-103.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART G
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
4 groovesDAGS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She Will Be Loved?

101 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 She Will Be Loved hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 She Will Be Loved?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 49.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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