Revolver · Thornhill

145 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-66 and 115-129 -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
REVOLVER · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 26 and 8 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 18 sections: 71 keep time, 14 are fills, 14 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-140.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART L
PART S6
CHORUS
PART U
PART X
PART AF
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
17 groovesOS1ANS6X+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Revolver?

150 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 Revolver hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Revolver?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 26 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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