She Loves You · The Beatles

87 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 2:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-40, 47-64 and 71-73, and 1 more place -- 67.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 151 BPM
SHE LOVES YOU · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 65.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 8 sections: 74 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-40.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
3 groovesDBS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She Loves You?

151 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 She Loves You hard to play on drums?

47 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in She Loves You?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other The Beatles drum parts

EVERY THE BEATLES CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →