The Girl Is Mine (feat. Paul McCartney) · Michael Jackson

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-9 and 13, and 10 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 81 BPM
THE GIRL IS MINE (FEAT. PAUL MCCARTNEY) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 29, 33, 35, 37 and 7 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 5 sections: 55 keep time, 13 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-25.

CHORUS
PART E
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEKBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Girl Is Mine (feat. Paul McCartney)?

81 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 Is Mine (feat. Paul McCartney) hard to play on drums?

62 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 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 The Girl Is Mine (feat. Paul McCartney)?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 29, 33, 35, 37 and 7 more.

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