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Girls Just Want To Have Fun · Cyndi Lauper

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART A
VERSE
PART K
PART G
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEAGKC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Girls Just Want To Have Fun on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 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
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-17, 22-30 and 51, and 2 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Girls Just Want To Have Fun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 93.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-36 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-41 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-64 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Girls Just Want To Have Fun?

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 Just Want To Have Fun hard to play on drums?

53 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Just Want To Have Fun?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 93.

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