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The Ballad Of John And Yoko · The Beatles

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove A -- Outro
0 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 88 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ballad Of John And Yoko on drums

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

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
55/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
The Ballad Of John And Yoko -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED