Babygirl · Anthony Green

96 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 9 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BABYGIRL · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 14, 16, 25, 26, 34 and 29 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 34-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 13 sections: 39 keep time, 35 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

PART A
PART A
PART E
BREAK 4
PART S8
BREAK 5
PART Q
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
10 groovesWAQS8E+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Babygirl?

111 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 Babygirl hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Babygirl?

7 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 14, 16, 25, 26, 34 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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