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Little Girl · Journey

EXERCISE 8 OF 34
Fill at bar 16 and 60 (a small one)
34 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGLCMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Little Girl on drums

65 bars, 3:43, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-26, hi-hat through bars 27-31 and ride through bars 32-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 21, and 4 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
RD |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Little Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 16, 20, 26, 34, 42 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C, G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 32-59 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Little Girl?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Little Girl hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Little Girl?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 16, 20, 26, 34, 42 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED