Surfer Girl · The Beach Boys

45 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 112 BPM, 2:20 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4 and 6-30 -- 93.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SURFER GIRL · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 3 sections: 30 keep time and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-31.

OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Surfer Girl?

112 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Surfer Girl hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 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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