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Mystery Girl (full) · Housecall

EXERCISE 5 OF 39
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
45 / 98 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mystery Girl (full) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-34 and silence through bars 35-41, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12               13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|--x---x-x-------|
Mystery Girl (full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H, U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-29 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-50 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-76 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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