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

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove C -- Outro
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CHORUS
PART E
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEKBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Girl Is Mine (feat. Paul McCartney) on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-29, ride through bars 30-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-75.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
HF |x---------------|
The Girl Is Mine (feat. Paul McCartney) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED