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Just a Girl · No Doubt

EXERCISE 19 OF 27
Join Part G to Outro (bars 55-57)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBDIG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just a Girl on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 3-46, ride through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-22, and 9 more places -- 43.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--X---X---X---X-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Just a Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 54, 64, 86 and 87.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-87 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Just a Girl?

108 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 Just a Girl hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Just a Girl?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 54, 64, 86 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED