Mystery Girl (full) · Housecall

98 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-16, 26-32 and 50-56, and 1 more place -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
MYSTERY GIRL (FULL) · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 9 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 11 sections: 65 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-81.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHUBNS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mystery Girl (full)?

135 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 Mystery Girl (full) hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Mystery Girl (full)?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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