What You're Doing · The Beatles

83 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-25, 34-50 and 60-71 -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WHAT YOU'RE DOING · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 58.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 7 sections: 74 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-50.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What You're Doing?

130 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 What You're Doing hard to play on drums?

44 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 What You're Doing?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 58.

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