Girl Friday · Butterfingers

87 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
GIRL FRIDAY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 11 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 10 sections: 46 keep time, 17 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-55.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHEOS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Girl Friday?

127 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 Friday 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Girl Friday?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 11 more.

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