On The Beach · Neil Young

203 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 65 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
ON THE BEACH · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 160.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 160 · LANDS ON BAR 161
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 15 sections: 157 keep time, 1 is a fill, 21 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-119.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesGFIBH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On The Beach?

115 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 On The Beach hard to play on drums?

41 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 On The Beach?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 160.

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