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Stand By Me · Oasis

EXERCISE 26 OF 28
Play the whole song with the record
121 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 128 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGCLBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stand By Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-43, ride through bars 44-63, hi-hat through bars 64-79, ride through bars 80-125 and kick and crashes through bars 126-128.

The beat

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.

    8                9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|----x-------x--x|
BD |x-------x-x-----|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 12 times: bars 19, 27, 35, 43, 63, 71 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 44-98 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 96-104 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
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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