Baby's In Black · The Beatles

67 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 2:03 of playing on hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-54 and 62-67 -- 89.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BABY'S IN BLACK · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 4 sections: 63 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-54.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Baby's In Black?

98 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 Baby's In Black 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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