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I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry Cover) · Nicaea

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove I -- Outro
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry Cover) on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, toms through bars 35-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry Cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I, L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-82 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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