Hey Jude - Beatles (Easy beginner version - Capo 3rd fret) · Southampton Guitar Academy

121 bars, 7:04, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-14 and 28-30, and 19 more places -- 58.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 68 BPM
HEY JUDE - BEATLES (EASY BEGINNER VERSION - CAPO 3RD FRET) · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 38.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 7 sections: 105 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-120.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Jude - Beatles (Easy beginner version - Capo 3rd fret)?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hey Jude - Beatles (Easy beginner version - Capo 3rd fret) hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hey Jude - Beatles (Easy beginner version - Capo 3rd fret)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 38.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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