Goody Two Shoes · Adam Ant

165 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 19 more places -- 51.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
GOODY TWO SHOES · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 10 sections: 153 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-64.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
7 groovesBEADF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goody Two Shoes?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Goody Two Shoes hard to play on drums?

38 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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