Martian Girl · The Aquabats!

134 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-28, 34-36 and 38-41, and 9 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MARTIAN GIRL · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 65, 69, 73, 113 and 121.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 9 sections: 117 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-36.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEDLBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Martian Girl?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Martian Girl hard to play on drums?

63 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Martian Girl?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 65, 69, 73, 113 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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