This Boy · The Beatles

41 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 2:13 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-19 -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THIS BOY · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 4 sections: 26 keep time and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesBS4DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Boy?

110 BPM, in 6/4, 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 This Boy hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 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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