Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band · The Beatles

44 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 1:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 11, and 1 more place -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 42 and 44.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 39-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 44
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

44 bars across 5 sections: 32 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAGEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?

96 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 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band hard to play on drums?

43 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 42 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 44 BARS ANALYSED
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