ballad of a homeschooled girl · Olivia Rodrigo

94 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 22-28 and 30-32, and 8 more places -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BALLAD OF A HOMESCHOOLED GIRL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 13, 29, 33, 45, 53 and 9 more.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCRS7S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ballad of a homeschooled girl?

121 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 ballad of a homeschooled girl hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 ballad of a homeschooled girl?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 13, 29, 33, 45, 53 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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