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Girlfriend · Matthew Sweet

Girlfriend · Matthew Sweet
EXERCISE 15 OF 43
Groove I
76 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJDCNA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Girlfriend on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

55 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
110
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, ride through bars 26-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43, ride through bars 44-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-70, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-29, 32-33 and 46-48, and 9 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Girlfriend -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 25, 43, 54, 70, 79 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-20 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-43 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-74 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Girlfriend?

120 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 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 25, 43, 54, 70, 79 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED