Tomorrow Never Knows · The Beatles

89 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on ride, snare, high tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-88 -- 98.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 89
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 2 sections: 86 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-88.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tomorrow Never Knows?

126 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 Tomorrow Never Knows hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tomorrow Never Knows?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.

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