Let It Be · The Beatles

60 bars, 3:15, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-36, 45-47 and 49-51, and 2 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
LET IT BE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 16, 21, 24, 28 and 57.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 8 sections: 41 keep time, 6 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-56.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKDAIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let It Be?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Let It Be hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Let It Be?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 16, 21, 24, 28 and 57.

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