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It's All Too Much · The Beatles

EXERCISE 20 OF 77
Fill at bar 44, 110, 122 and 144 (a small one)
96 / 179 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNDBUS1BH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It's All Too Much on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-29, hi-hat through bars 30-63, ride through bars 64-68, hi-hat through bars 69-92 and ride through bars 93-99, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
It's All Too Much -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- N, BU -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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