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The Boy Is Mine · Brandy & Monica

The Boy Is Mine · Brandy & Monica
EXERCISE 7 OF 12
Join Chorus to Outro (bars 20-22)
82 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Boy Is Mine on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-15, 18 and 22-23, and 6 more places -- 74.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Boy Is Mine -- 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 11 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-36 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Boy Is Mine?

93 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 The Boy Is Mine hard to play on drums?

37 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED