The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill · The Beatles

78 bars, 4:57, at 59 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
59 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-10 and 18-20, and 11 more places -- 52.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 59 BPM
THE CONTINUING STORY OF BUNGALOW BILL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 9 sections: 69 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-72.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill?

59 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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