Twist And Shout · The Beatles

78 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-20 and 22-28, and 7 more places -- 57.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
TWIST AND SHOUT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 51, 77 and 78.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 77-78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 6 sections: 68 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-36.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIHBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Twist And Shout?

125 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 Twist And Shout hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Twist And Shout?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 51, 77 and 78.

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