Girls Got Rhythm · AC/DC

116 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-43 and 61-67, and 7 more places -- 56.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
GIRLS GOT RHYTHM · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 32, 76, 84, 92, 94 and 3 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 4 sections: 101 keep time, 9 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-24.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Girls Got Rhythm?

140 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 Got Rhythm hard to play on drums?

63 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 32 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Girls Got Rhythm?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 32, 76, 84, 92, 94 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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