All Things Must Pass · George Harrison

112 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-50, 61-65 and 71-90 -- 60.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 124 BPM
ALL THINGS MUST PASS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 103.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 8 sections: 92 keep time, 2 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-50.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesEGBS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Things Must Pass?

124 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 All Things Must Pass hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 All Things Must Pass?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 103.

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