Day Tripper · The Beatles

95 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-18, 30-38 and 62-70 -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
DAY TRIPPER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 28, 60, 86, 88, 90 and 2 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 11 sections: 64 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-18.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDEKFH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Day Tripper?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Day Tripper hard to play on drums?

63 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Day Tripper?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 28, 60, 86, 88, 90 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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