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Martian Girl · The Aquabats!

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Martian Girl on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-33, snare through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-61, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------x---g-----------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---g-----------|
Martian Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E, D -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-53 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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