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Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da · The Beatles

EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Join Chorus to Break (bars 42-44)
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0 / 9 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-43, silence through bars 44-45, hi-hat through bars 46-67, silence through bars 68-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-36, 38-43 and 46-67, and 3 more places -- 95% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 87.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da?

113 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 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED