Girl Next Door · blink-182

48 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 17-19 and 21-23, and 2 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GIRL NEXT DOOR · BAR 17
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 26, 30, 42 and 46.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 5 sections: 31 keep time, 5 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Girl Next Door?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Next Door hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Next Door?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 26, 30, 42 and 46.

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