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

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove C -- Outro
0 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) on drums

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

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
31/100

snare through bars 2-98.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-----x--x--x-----x--|
Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED