Here Comes The Sun · The Beatles

120 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28, 34-45 and 95-107, and 1 more place -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 129 BPM
HERE COMES THE SUN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 14, 15, 29, 30, 32, 46 and 17 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 7 sections: 72 keep time, 23 are fills, 8 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-107.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART G
OUTRO
4 groovesEGJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Here Comes The Sun?

129 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 Here Comes The Sun hard to play on drums?

51 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Here Comes The Sun?

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 14, 15, 29, 30, 32, 46 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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