Hey Bulldog · The Beatles

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-22, 32 and 37-47, and 1 more place -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
HEY BULLDOG · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 58, 60, 62 and 3 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 9 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-22.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCJBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Bulldog?

100 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 Hey Bulldog hard to play on drums?

52 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hey Bulldog?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 58, 60, 62 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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