Girls Talk Boys · 5 Seconds of Summer

106 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 11-17 and 19-25, and 4 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GIRLS TALK BOYS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 15 sections: 83 keep time, 11 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-48.

CHORUS
PART E
PART C
PART E
PART A
OUTRO
9 groovesDECAF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Girls Talk 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 Talk Boys hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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