Are You Gonna Be My Girl · Jet

182 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 16 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 212 BPM
ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 35, 39, 40, 41, 53, 61 and 12 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 39-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 15 sections: 90 keep time, 18 are fills, 40 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-149.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBAHNS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Are You Gonna Be My Girl?

212 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Are You Gonna Be My Girl hard to play on drums?

57 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Are You Gonna Be My Girl?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 35, 39, 40, 41, 53, 61 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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