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While My Guitar Gently Weeps · The Beatles

EXERCISE 9 OF 27
Groove F
105 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play While My Guitar Gently Weeps on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
34/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-89 and snare through bars 90-108, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
While My Guitar Gently Weeps -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-63 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 55-92 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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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