Equestria Girls (Cafeteria Song) · My Little Pony

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 37-39, and 7 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
EQUESTRIA GIRLS (CAFETERIA SONG) · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 5 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 12 sections: 52 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-77.

PART A
PART B
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBAHS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Equestria Girls (Cafeteria Song)?

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 Equestria Girls (Cafeteria Song) hard to play on drums?

45 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Equestria Girls (Cafeteria Song)?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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