Don't Let Me Down · The Beatles

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 9 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 79 BPM
DON'T LET ME DOWN · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 33, 34 and 50.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-32.

PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
5 groovesHKDQS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Let Me Down?

79 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 Don't Let Me Down hard to play on drums?

62 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Don't Let Me Down?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 33, 34 and 50.

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