Dear Prudence · The Beatles

60 bars, 3:13, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18 and 33-40 -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 74 BPM
DEAR PRUDENCE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 3 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 44-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 9 sections: 34 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCDRS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dear Prudence?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Dear Prudence hard to play on drums?

52 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dear Prudence?

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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