"Stand By Me" · Ben E. King

87 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
24/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 26-30 and 41-45, and 2 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
"STAND BY ME" · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-87.

CHORUS
PART B
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesACBDF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Stand By Me"?

120 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 "Stand By Me" hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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