I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry Cover) · Nicaea

99 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 63-69 and 83-89, and 1 more place -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
I KISSED A GIRL (KATY PERRY COVER) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 54, 97 and 98.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 97-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 82 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART A
PART L
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
6 groovesILCGA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry Cover)?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry Cover) hard to play on drums?

52 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry Cover)?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 54, 97 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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