Girl All The Bad Guys Want · Bowling For Soup

111 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PunkPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 15-19 and 31-33, and 4 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 133 BPM
GIRL ALL THE BAD GUYS WANT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 14, 20, 30, 34, 42 and 5 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 111
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 15 sections: 70 keep time, 11 are fills, 10 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-110.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART M
BREAK
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDIMS13+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Girl All The Bad Guys Want?

133 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 Girl All The Bad Guys Want hard to play on drums?

44 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Girl All The Bad Guys Want?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 14, 20, 30, 34, 42 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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