Cheer Down · George Harrison

115 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-23, and 14 more places -- 76.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
CHEER DOWN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 36, 60, 74, 78, 82, 90 and 5 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 101-102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 2 sections: 102 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-35.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cheer Down?

115 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 Cheer Down hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 Cheer Down?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 36, 60, 74, 78, 82, 90 and 5 more.

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