We Two · Paul McCartney

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-7, 9-10 and 12-15, and 12 more places -- 59.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
WE TWO · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 27, 28 and 45.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars: 50 keep time, 5 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-44.

OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Two?

92 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 We Two hard to play on drums?

36 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in We Two?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 27, 28 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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