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What You're Doing · The Beatles

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 19 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What You're Doing on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-71 and snare through bars 72-83.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
What You're Doing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-59 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-63 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED