Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) · John Lennon

98 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 19-25, and 12 more places -- 79.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 119 BPM
INSTANT KARMA! (WE ALL SHINE ON) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 2 sections: 97 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-98.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)?

119 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) hard to play on drums?

31 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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