Girl Can't Help it · Journey

120 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26, and 12 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
GIRL CAN'T HELP IT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 30, 60, 68, 92, 96 and 5 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 7 sections: 99 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-91.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGEANFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Girl Can't Help it?

130 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 Can't Help it hard to play on drums?

54 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Girl Can't Help it?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 30, 60, 68, 92, 96 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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