I wanna be your girlfriend · Girl In Red

127 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 20-60 and 69-82, and 4 more places -- 75.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 156 BPM
I WANNA BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 64 and 65.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 10 sections: 105 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-60.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCS8GD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I wanna be your girlfriend?

156 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 I wanna be your girlfriend 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I wanna be your girlfriend?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 64 and 65.

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