Can't Buy Me Love · The Beatles

92 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-16, 18-28 and 30-38, and 6 more places -- 75.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 172 BPM
CAN'T BUY ME LOVE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 4 sections: 88 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-81.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Can't Buy Me Love?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Can't Buy Me Love hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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