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She Has a Girlfriend Now (But its not bad) · Reel Big Fish

EXERCISE 6 OF 26
Groove D
79 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIFGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play She Has a Girlfriend Now (But its not bad) on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 12-17 and 20-26, and 5 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
She Has a Girlfriend Now (But its not bad) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 11, 27, 83, 87 and 95.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 48-63 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is She Has a Girlfriend Now (But its not bad)?

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 She Has a Girlfriend Now (But its not bad) 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 She Has a Girlfriend Now (But its not bad)?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 11, 27, 83, 87 and 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED