The Shimmie Shake · The Beatles

163 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 18-19 and 22-23, and 10 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE SHIMMIE SHAKE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 56, 66, 67 and 163.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 163
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 12 sections: 134 keep time, 5 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-162.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 4
VERSE
5 groovesEBPMHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Shimmie Shake?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Shimmie Shake hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Shimmie Shake?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 56, 66, 67 and 163.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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