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Sorority Girls · Mommy Long Legs

Sorority Girls · Mommy Long Legs
EXERCISE 23 OF 23
Play the whole song with the record
75 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 75 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sorority Girls on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:15 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, ride through bars 23-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and ride through bars 47-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5-11, and 3 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Sorority Girls -- 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 74 and 75.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-59 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-75 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Sorority Girls?

133 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 Sorority Girls hard to play on drums?

51 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Sorority Girls?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 74 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED