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Girl Friday · Butterfingers

EXERCISE 19 OF 38
Run H1 · Chorus (bars 21-33)
59 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Girl Friday on drums

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.

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
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-18, toms through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-36, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Girl Friday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-41 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 48-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED