Brown Eyed Girl · Van Morrison

117 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkFunk / Soul150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-57, 68-69 and 76-117 -- 78.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BROWN EYED GIRL · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 6 sections: 111 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-57.

PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDEBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brown Eyed Girl?

151 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 Brown Eyed Girl hard to play on drums?

62 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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