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Get Back · The Beatles

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGCS6S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Get Back on drums

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

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-36, toms through bars 37-45, snare through bars 46-76, silence through bars 77-78, toms through bars 79-87 and snare through bars 88-96.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-ggx-ggx-ggx-gg|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Get Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-91 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED