(Just Like) Starting Over · John Lennon

97 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 3:29 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-29, 34-35 and 38-40, and 3 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
(JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 36, 46, 47, 55 and 63.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 8 sections: 39 keep time, 7 are fills and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-29.

BREAK
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
7 groovesS8ES2DH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is (Just Like) Starting Over?

165 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is (Just Like) Starting Over hard to play on drums?

43 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 (Just Like) Starting Over?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 36, 46, 47, 55 and 63.

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