Stand By Me · John Lennon

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-28, 31-36 and 40-41, and 3 more places -- 56.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
STAND BY ME · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 29, 37, 53, 60, 61 and 2 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 3 sections: 56 keep time, 8 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-28.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stand By Me?

105 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?

46 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?

69 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Stand By Me?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 29, 37, 53, 60, 61 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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