All You Need Is Love · The Beatles

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-35, 46-51 and 62-67, and 1 more place -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 94 BPM
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 6 sections: 96 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-75.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFIBDH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All You Need Is Love?

94 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 You Need Is Love hard to play on drums?

37 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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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