The Girl From Ipanema · Amy Winehouse

91 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 29 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 36 and 90.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 7 sections: 81 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-62.

PART B
PART C
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Girl From Ipanema?

138 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 Girl From Ipanema hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Girl From Ipanema?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 36 and 90.

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