Girls And Boys · Blur

144 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 14 more places -- 82.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GIRLS AND BOYS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 64 and 104.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 2 sections: 138 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-144.

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

Questions

What BPM is Girls And Boys?

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 Girls And Boys hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Girls And Boys?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 64 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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