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Girl Can't Help it · Journey

EXERCISE 10 OF 39
Groove D
85 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Girl Can't Help it on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, ride through bars 31-35, hi-hat through bars 36-60, ride through bars 61-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-92, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Girl Can't Help it -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E, G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-39 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-97 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 93-109 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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