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Girl From Mars · Ash

EXERCISE 8 OF 22
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIES1S7S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Girl From Mars on drums

123 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, ride through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-62, ride through bars 63-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-95, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-41, 65-73 and 79-94, and 1 more place -- 49% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--------x-x---x-|
Girl From Mars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 32, 42 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- I, E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Girl From Mars?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Girl From Mars hard to play on drums?

58 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 From Mars?

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 32, 42 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED