California Girls · The Beach Boys

79 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 35, and 10 more places -- 53.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
CALIFORNIA GIRLS · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44, 62, 66 and 3 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 11 sections: 41 keep time, 9 are fills, 13 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-60.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDHAJS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is California Girls?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 California Girls hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 California Girls?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44, 62, 66 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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