Berber Girl · Alternative Competition 7

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and mid tom.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-45, 47-77 and 81-102 -- 95.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BERBER GIRL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 78, 103 and 104.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 103-104 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 2 sections: 98 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-77.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Berber Girl?

100 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 Berber Girl hard to play on drums?

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and mid tom. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Berber Girl?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 78, 103 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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