Beautiful Girl · INXS

100 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-70 and 72-78 -- 71.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BEAUTIFUL GIRL · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 79, 83, 87 and 91.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 4 sections: 72 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-78.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1FIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beautiful 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 Beautiful Girl hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Beautiful Girl?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 79, 83, 87 and 91.

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