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Stupid Girl · Cold

EXERCISE 5 OF 20
Groove E
107 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDS6S2S1A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stupid Girl on drums

144 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 3:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

50 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
3/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-44, snare through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 17-18, and 17 more places -- 76.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-x---x-|
Stupid Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 96, 140 and 144.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-103 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stupid Girl?

140 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Stupid Girl hard to play on drums?

50 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?

144 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Stupid Girl?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 96, 140 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED