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I Want To Hold Your Hand drums: tempo, difficulty and parts
I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles is 134 BPM and runs 2:21: 79 bars and 1,053 notes played on the hi-hat, kick, snare, tom 1, floor tom and crash.
The drum part is rated Easy — a good first song: steady, and forgiving while you find the groove.
It has 3 fills, its longest section is the Chorus Outro (0:15) and the hi-hat opens as well as closes.
Song map
- Pre-Verse
- Verse 1
- Chorus 1
- Verse 2
- Chorus 2
- Bridge
- Pre-Verse
- Verse 3
- Chorus 3
- Bridge
- Pre-Verse
- Verse 4
- Chorus Outro
How to play I Want To Hold Your Hand on drums
- Plug in your electronic drum kit over USB — or play on the keyboard.
- Press play. The notes of I Want To Hold Your Hand come down in time with the recording. Play it in Beatfall or read it as drum notation.
- Slow it down. Take the Fill into Chorus Outro at 0.5× or 0.75× with a click and a count-in, then bring it up to 134 BPM.
- Check every hit — on time, early or late — before you record your I Want To Hold Your Hand drum cover.
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