Penny Lane · The Beatles

83 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 42-48 and 59-60, and 1 more place -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 113 BPM
PENNY LANE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 10 sections: 65 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCHBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Penny Lane?

113 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 Penny Lane hard to play on drums?

38 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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.

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