Lady Madonna · The Beatles

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 2:11 of playing, on crash, ride and snare.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
20/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18, 21-34 and 37-50, and 3 more places -- 85% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 109 BPM
LADY MADONNA · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars: 59 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-50.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lady Madonna?

109 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 Lady Madonna hard to play on drums?

20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride and snare. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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