While My Guitar Gently Weeps · The Beatles

136 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-30, 33-38 and 57-62, and 10 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 72, 100, 104, 116, 132 and 136.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 7 sections: 116 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

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

Questions

What BPM is While My Guitar Gently Weeps?

116 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 While My Guitar Gently Weeps hard to play on drums?

34 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?

136 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor 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 While My Guitar Gently Weeps?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 72, 100, 104, 116, 132 and 136.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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