Octopus's Garden · The Beatles

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 3 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
OCTOPUS'S GARDEN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 60, 61, 62, 63 and 64.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 60-64 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 8 sections: 47 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-31.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHJELCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Octopus's Garden?

92 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 Octopus's Garden hard to play on drums?

56 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Octopus's Garden?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 60, 61, 62, 63 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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