Fixing A Hole · The Beatles

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 32-34 and 62-67, and 2 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
FIXING A HOLE · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 59.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 1 is a fill, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-75.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART M
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIJCSM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fixing A Hole?

95 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 Fixing A Hole hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fixing A Hole?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 59.

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