Oh! Darling · The Beatles

49 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 3:20 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 10-15 and 26-31 -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
OH! DARLING · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 32 and 1 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 16-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 5 sections: 22 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-15.

CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS5HS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oh! Darling?

87 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Oh! Darling hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Oh! Darling?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 32 and 1 more.

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