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Drive My Car · The Beatles

EXERCISE 9 OF 10
Run D1 · Outro (bars 3-75)
71 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 73 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drive My Car on drums

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

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-9, snare through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-41, snare through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-57, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Drive My Car -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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