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Brave Girls · Ska-P

Brave Girls · Ska-P
EXERCISE 33 OF 36
Fill at bar 72 (a small one)
88 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAKCDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brave Girls on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 21-27 and 45-51, and 2 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 12, 28, 35, 36, 60 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Brave Girls?

99 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 Brave Girls hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Brave Girls?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 12, 28, 35, 36, 60 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED