Goofy Ah Song · me not you

160 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-48, 50-55 and 58-64, and 5 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 164 BPM
GOOFY AH SONG · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 38, 56, 72 and 8 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 9 sections: 116 keep time, 21 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-71.

PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPFCWA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goofy Ah Song?

164 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 Goofy Ah Song hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Goofy Ah Song?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 38, 56, 72 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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