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Beautiful Girl · INXS

EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
79 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 100 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1FIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beautiful Girl on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-100.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Beautiful Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-93 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 81-96 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED