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Girl Scout · Jack Off Jill

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove C -- Part C
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PART B
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJCGRB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Girl Scout on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-33, snare through bars 34-36, toms through bars 37-54, snare through bars 55-57, toms through bars 58-66 and snare through bars 67-70, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 13-20 and 49-52 -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
T2 |---------------------x-----x--------------------|
FT |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----------------------x--x--------------|
Girl Scout -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 29, 37, 53, 69, 85 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-39 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-57 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Girl Scout?

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 Scout hard to play on drums?

59 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Scout?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 29, 37, 53, 69, 85 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED