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Lonely Girl · Weezer

EXERCISE 6 OF 36
Groove G -- Part G
58 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
PART S8
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDGOS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lonely Girl on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, toms through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, toms through bars 42-49 and ride through bars 50-57, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 3 more places -- 43.8% 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---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Lonely Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 41, 49, 72 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 30-53 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-66 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-82 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-90 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lonely Girl?

133 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 Lonely Girl hard to play on drums?

60 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 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 Lonely Girl?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 41, 49, 72 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED