Act Naturally · The Beatles

113 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-19, 22-51 and 54-75, and 1 more place -- 93.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 186 BPM
ACT NATURALLY · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 2 sections: 111 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-112.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Act Naturally?

186 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Act Naturally 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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