A Girl Like You · Edwyn Collins

111 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 26-32, and 4 more places -- 58.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
A GIRL LIKE YOU · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 57, 73, 81 and 1 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 2 sections: 102 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

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

Questions

What BPM is A Girl Like You?

130 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 A Girl Like You hard to play on drums?

35 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in A Girl Like You?

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 57, 73, 81 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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