What You Won't Do for Love · Bobby Caldwell

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-13, 17-19 and 35-37, and 3 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 86 BPM
WHAT YOU WON'T DO FOR LOVE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 71 and 72.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 71-72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 58 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-33.

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

Questions

What BPM is What You Won't Do for Love?

86 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 What You Won't Do for Love 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in What You Won't Do for Love?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 71 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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