The Ballad Of John And Yoko · The Beatles

100 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-41, 43-49 and 51-57, and 5 more places -- 88% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 99 and 100.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 99-100 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars: 98 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-98.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ballad Of John And Yoko?

135 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 The Ballad Of John And Yoko hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Ballad Of John And Yoko?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 99 and 100.

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