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Don't Let Me Down · The Beatles

EXERCISE 11 OF 27
Groove K -- Part K
42 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
5 groovesHKDQS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Let Me Down on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, ride through bars 43-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-66.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x--x--x-|
HH |x-x-x-x---------|
SD |----x---x--x--x-|
BD |x-------x-x-x-x-|
Don't Let Me Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-60 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED