Here Comes My Girl (Alternate Version, 1979) · Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 10-24 and 26-48, and 8 more places -- 74% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
HERE COMES MY GIRL (ALTERNATE VERSION, 1979) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 25, 49, 57, 65, 73 and 5 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 4 sections: 112 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-48.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAGHFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Here Comes My Girl (Alternate Version, 1979)?

100 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 Here Comes My Girl (Alternate Version, 1979) hard to play on drums?

44 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Here Comes My Girl (Alternate Version, 1979)?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 25, 49, 57, 65, 73 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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