Mystery Girl (Revamped) · Housecall

98 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 3 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MYSTERY GIRL (REVAMPED) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 18 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

2 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: 54 keep time, 25 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-32.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART O
PART Q
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJECMQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mystery Girl (Revamped)?

140 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 (Revamped) hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 (Revamped)?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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