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Ex-Girlfriend · No Doubt

EXERCISE 8 OF 33
Groove F
42 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ex-Girlfriend on drums

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

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-34, ride through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and ride through bars 53-55, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xx--xx--|
Ex-Girlfriend -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-49 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-57 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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