Goth Babe · Surf Curse

138 bars at 214 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-51, 98-99 and 108-115, and 1 more place -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 214 BPM
GOTH BABE · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 45, 52, 53, 77, 81, 121 and 2 more.

LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 214 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 214 BPM
BARS 121-123 · LANDS ON BAR 124 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 17 sections: 102 keep time, 8 are fills, 8 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-75.

PART B
PART C
PART D
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART N
PART O
PART F
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesJFNGO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goth Babe?

214 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 Goth Babe hard to play on drums?

58 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Goth Babe?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 45, 52, 53, 77, 81, 121 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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