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Babygirl · Anthony Green

Babygirl · Anthony Green
EXERCISE 22 OF 39
Run S81 · Part S8 (bars 34-41)
49 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S8
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Babygirl on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, silence through bars 29-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, silence through bars 42-46, snare through bars 47-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-60, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-----x------x---|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Babygirl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-27 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-41 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-47 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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