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Rebel Girl · Bikini Kill

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 16 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rebel Girl on drums

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

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
32/100

The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |----------x---x-|
Rebel Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-69 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED