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Can't Buy Me Love · The Beatles

EXERCISE 5 OF 10
Groove E
82 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Can't Buy Me Love on drums

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

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-84 and toms through bars 85-92.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Can't Buy Me Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED