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Old Brown Shoe · The Beatles

EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Groove K -- Part K
68 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Old Brown Shoe on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-117.

The beat

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.

    7
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Old Brown Shoe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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