Coming Up · Paul McCartney

118 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-78 and 80-116 -- 97.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 129 BPM
COMING UP · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 117.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars: 116 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-116.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coming Up?

129 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 Coming Up hard to play on drums?

44 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Coming Up?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 117.

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