Back In The U.S.S.R. · The Beatles

90 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 15 and 18, and 7 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 13, 19, 23, 27, 31 and 18 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 9 sections: 54 keep time, 24 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-12.

CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEXPNB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back In The U.S.S.R.?

142 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 Back In The U.S.S.R. hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor 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 Back In The U.S.S.R.?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 13, 19, 23, 27, 31 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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