Stand By Me · Oasis

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-18, 20-26 and 28-34, and 3 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
STAND BY ME · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 19, 27, 35, 43, 63, 71 and 6 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 8 sections: 103 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-62.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGCLBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stand By Me?

87 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?

53 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 12 times: bars 19, 27, 35, 43, 63, 71 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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