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Barbie Girl · Aqua

Barbie Girl · Aqua
EXERCISE 10 OF 25
Join Chorus to Part J (bars 21-23)
65 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Barbie Girl on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-100 and silence through bars 101-105.

The beat

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.

    15               16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--xx-xxx--xxx-xx|--xx-xxx-xxxx-xx|
FT |x-x-x---xxx-x---|x-x-x---x-x-x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-x-|
HF |x-xx--xxx-xx--xx|x-xx--xxx-xx--xx|
Barbie Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, L -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-39 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 44-80 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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