Old Brown Shoe · The Beatles

117 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14 and 16, and 17 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 143 BPM
OLD BROWN SHOE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 51, 63, 79, 91, 95 and 4 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 6 sections: 97 keep time, 10 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-38.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Old Brown Shoe?

143 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Old Brown Shoe hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 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 Old Brown Shoe?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 51, 63, 79, 91, 95 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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