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EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART S4
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beetlebum on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-24, ride through bars 25-39, silence through bars 40-49, hi-hat through bars 50-59 and ride through bars 60-73, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-23, 50-58 and 74-104, and 1 more place -- 62.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Beetlebum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 105 and 113.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 30-68 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Beetlebum?

90 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 Beetlebum hard to play on drums?

39 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Beetlebum?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 105 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED