Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) · John Lennon

110 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-88 -- 76.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BEAUTIFUL BOY (DARLING BOY) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 7 sections: 100 keep time, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-89.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
7 groovesCABS6S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)?

110 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 Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) hard to play on drums?

26 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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