Ex-Girlfriend · No Doubt

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 17 and 19, and 11 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 84 BPM
EX-GIRLFRIEND · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15 and 7 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 12 sections: 48 keep time, 13 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART G
PART S
OUTRO
6 groovesDEJGS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ex-Girlfriend?

84 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 Ex-Girlfriend hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Ex-Girlfriend?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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