← SONGS

Brown Eyed Girl · Van Morrison

EXERCISE 4 OF 15
Groove E -- Verse
96 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDEBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brown Eyed Girl on drums

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

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-57, ride through bars 58-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-117.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |------x-x-------|
HH |x-x-x---x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Brown Eyed Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 58-72 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED