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

Here Comes My Girl (Alternate Version, 1979) · Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
EXERCISE 13 OF 28
Groove F -- Part F
104 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAGHFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Here Comes My Girl (Alternate Version, 1979) on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-100, ride through bars 101-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-127.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Here Comes My Girl (Alternate Version, 1979) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 103-127 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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