My Girl · The Temptations

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14 and 16, and 9 more places -- 77.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
MY GIRL · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 4 sections: 66 keep time, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-37.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Girl?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 My Girl hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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