When I'm Sixty-Four · The Beatles

92 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 15-21, and 6 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-38.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
OUTRO
5 groovesAFHS3S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When I'm Sixty-Four?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 When I'm Sixty-Four hard to play on drums?

41 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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