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ballad of a homeschooled girl · Olivia Rodrigo

EXERCISE 33 OF 33
Play the whole song with the record
85 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 94 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S4
PART C
CHORUS 3
BREAK
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCRS7S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ballad of a homeschooled girl on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-29, snare through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-37, silence through bars 38-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-53, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-25 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-70 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 76-86 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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