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My Girl · The Temptations

My Girl · The Temptations
EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Girl on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-37, silence through bars 38-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-74.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED