Message To My Girl · Split Enz

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-27, 29-35 and 37-45, and 4 more places -- 94.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
MESSAGE TO MY GIRL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 46, 62 and 66.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars: 100 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-104.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Message To My Girl?

104 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 Message To My Girl hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Message To My Girl?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 46, 62 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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