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ガールフレンド(ai) · the pillows

EXERCISE 10 OF 37
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
67 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, PART L
CHORUS
VERSE
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDHLJE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ガールフレンド(ai) on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-28, 36 and 46-48, and 4 more places -- 42% 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-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
ガールフレンド(ai) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 35, 45, 61, 68, 69 and 77.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, H -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is ガールフレンド(ai)?

102 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 ガールフレンド(ai) hard to play on drums?

48 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in ガールフレンド(ai)?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 35, 45, 61, 68, 69 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED