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Girl All The Bad Guys Want · Bowling For Soup

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Chorus
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INTRO
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Girl All The Bad Guys Want on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30 and snare through bars 31-34, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Girl All The Bad Guys Want -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-18 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-34 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-63 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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