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I wanna be your girlfriend · Girl In Red

EXERCISE 12 OF 16
Join Part C to Break 2 (bars 96-98)
107 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, BREAK 2
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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I wanna be your girlfriend on drums

127 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare 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
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, silence through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-63 and snare through bars 64-66, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
I wanna be your girlfriend -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 59-97 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 96-113 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED