Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds · The Beatles

122 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 122 BPM, 3:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 76-82 and 101-103, and 4 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 11 sections: 105 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-122.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAFDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?

122 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds hard to play on drums?

49 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 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.

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