Barbie Girl · Aqua

105 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-16, 19-20 and 36-37, and 9 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARBIE GIRL · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 21, 22, 35, 42, 43 and 7 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 11 sections: 66 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-100.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 4
6 groovesCJS1LS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Barbie Girl?

126 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 Barbie Girl hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 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 Barbie Girl?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 21, 22, 35, 42, 43 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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