If I Was Your Girlfriend · Prince

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:50 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-117 -- 96.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
IF I WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND · BAR 7
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 2 sections: 115 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-117.

OUTRO
2 groovesES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If I Was Your Girlfriend?

80 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 If I Was Your Girlfriend hard to play on drums?

38 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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