I Saw Her Standing There · The Beatles

113 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 14-28 and 30-46, and 8 more places -- 90.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
I SAW HER STANDING THERE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 29, 47, 55, 63, 79 and 3 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 2 sections: 103 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-46.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Saw Her Standing There?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Saw Her Standing There hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Saw Her Standing There?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 29, 47, 55, 63, 79 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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