Mystery Girl · Housecall

20 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 0:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
20
LENGTH
0:35
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-17 and 19-20 -- 68.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
MYSTERY GIRL · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 5.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

20 bars across 4 sections: 16 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-17.

PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesDBS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mystery Girl?

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 hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

20 bars, about 0:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Mystery Girl?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 5.

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