Space Girl · Frances Forever

104 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-104 -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 126 BPM
SPACE GIRL · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 6 sections: 92 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-57.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesHDMAS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Space Girl?

126 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 Space Girl 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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