Little Guitars · Van Halen

119 bars, 6:33, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 40-46 and 60-62, and 2 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
LITTLE GUITARS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 12, 18, 34, 36, 38 and 11 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 16 sections: 84 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-118.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGJOAH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Little Guitars?

72 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 Guitars hard to play on drums?

50 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?

119 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Little Guitars?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 12, 18, 34, 36, 38 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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