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Stand By Me · John Lennon

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove D -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stand By Me on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-69.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Stand By Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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