A Taste Of Honey · The Beatles

62 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 1:47 of playing on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
17/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24, 31-50 and 59-61 -- 78.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
A TASTE OF HONEY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 7 sections: 49 keep time, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Taste Of Honey?

110 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Taste Of Honey hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 2 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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