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Space Girl · Frances Forever

Space Girl · Frances Forever
EXERCISE 13 OF 22
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 26-28)
96 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesHDMAS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Space Girl on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare 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
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-72, silence through bars 73-80 and snare through bars 81-104.

The beat

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.

    81
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------g-------|
BD |g-------g-------|
Space Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- M, H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-28 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 55-73 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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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