In My Life · The Beatles

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 2:21 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 21-30 and 39-46, and 2 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
IN MY LIFE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 3 sections: 55 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-56.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In My Life?

103 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 In My Life hard to play on drums?

29 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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