Martha My Dear · The Beatles

30 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 1:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
30
LENGTH
1:13
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28 -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 89 BPM
MARTHA MY DEAR · BAR 22
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 30.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 30
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

30 bars across 4 sections: 20 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Martha My Dear?

89 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 Martha My Dear 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

30 bars, about 1:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Martha My Dear?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 30.

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