You Can't Do That · The Beatles

79 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-12, 14-24 and 26-34, and 4 more places -- 84.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 129 BPM
YOU CAN'T DO THAT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 2 sections: 77 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-78.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Can't Do That?

129 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 You Can't Do That hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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