A Hard Day's Night · The Beatles

82 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-33, 35-64 and 67-81 -- 93.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 139 BPM
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 2 sections: 79 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-81.

OUTRO
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Hard Day's Night?

139 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 A Hard Day's Night hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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