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Paperback Writer · The Beatles

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S5
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDES5S9S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paperback Writer on drums

88 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-31, silence through bars 32-36, hi-hat through bars 37-63 and silence through bars 64-68, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-17, 25-29 and 37, and 7 more places -- 64.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Paperback Writer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 20, 51 and 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Paperback Writer?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Paperback Writer hard to play on drums?

54 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Paperback Writer?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 20, 51 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED