It's All Too Much · The Beatles

179 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 6:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 38-39 and 42, and 16 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
IT'S ALL TOO MUCH · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 19, 26, 27, 37, 40, 41 and 39 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 15 sections: 104 keep time, 45 are fills, 3 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 164-179.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNDBUS1BH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It's All Too Much?

114 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 It's All Too Much hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 It's All Too Much?

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 19, 26, 27, 37, 40, 41 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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