Drive My Car · The Beatles

75 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-9, 12-25 and 28-34, and 5 more places -- 83.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
DRIVE MY CAR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 10, 11, 26, 27, 42 and 4 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 2 sections: 61 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-25.

OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drive My Car?

122 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 Drive My Car hard to play on drums?

45 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Drive My Car?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 10, 11, 26, 27, 42 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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