I Wanna Be Your Man · The Beatles

95 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 19-24 and 27-42, and 8 more places -- 86.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 200 BPM
I WANNA BE YOUR MAN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 55, 71, 80 and 92.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 2 sections: 89 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-54.

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

Questions

What BPM is I Wanna Be Your Man?

200 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 Wanna Be Your Man hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 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 I Wanna Be Your Man?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 55, 71, 80 and 92.

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