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Sour Girl · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 3 OF 32
Groove B -- Part B
76 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGKBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sour Girl on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 2-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 34-52 and 96-112 -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Sour Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 31, 59, 60, 61, 67 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sour Girl?

106 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 Sour Girl hard to play on drums?

54 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sour Girl?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 31, 59, 60, 61, 67 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED