Like a Virgin · Madonna

107 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11-16 and 21, and 11 more places -- 75.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LIKE A VIRGIN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 8 sections: 95 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-107.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Like a Virgin?

120 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 Like a Virgin 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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