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Girl · The Beatles

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Girl on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
37/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-57 and ride through bars 58-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-25 and 34-49 -- 65.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 22-37 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 46-61 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Girl?

97 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 hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED