Girlfriend · Avril Lavigne

146 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopPunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-56, 82-88 and 90-96, and 3 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 164 BPM
GIRLFRIEND · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 33, 41, 57, 59, 65 and 7 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 12 sections: 112 keep time, 15 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-56.

PART B
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBFHD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Girlfriend?

164 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 Girlfriend hard to play on drums?

57 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?

146 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Girlfriend?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 33, 41, 57, 59, 65 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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