Pretty Little Girl · blink-182

182 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 34 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
PRETTY LITTLE GIRL · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 58, 59, 60, 64, 68, 71 and 19 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 16 sections: 130 keep time, 25 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-46.

PART C
CHORUS
PART U
9 groovesQCHUN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pretty Little Girl?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pretty Little Girl hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Pretty Little Girl?

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 58, 59, 60, 64, 68, 71 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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