Rebel Girl · Bikini Kill

85 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 29-44 and 53-68 -- 61.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
REBEL GIRL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 51.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 6 sections: 73 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rebel Girl?

130 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 Rebel Girl hard to play on drums?

32 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rebel Girl?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 51.

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