Girlfriend Is Better · Talking Heads

170 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 5:43 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17, 19-29 and 31-37, and 20 more places -- 84.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 119 BPM
GIRLFRIEND IS BETTER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 3 sections: 168 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-139.

CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Girlfriend Is Better?

119 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 Girlfriend Is Better hard to play on drums?

55 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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