Normal Girl · Sza

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 16-19, and 11 more places -- 68.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 76 BPM
NORMAL GIRL · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 6 sections: 57 keep time and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-32.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Normal Girl?

76 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 Normal Girl hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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