Get Back · The Beatles

96 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-15 and 19-23, and 8 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
GET BACK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 41, 45, 83 and 87.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 84 keep time, 4 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-35.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGCS6S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get Back?

124 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 Get Back hard to play on drums?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Get Back?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 41, 45, 83 and 87.

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