THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD · girlfriends

130 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-15, and 10 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 24, 32, 34, 36, 40, 44 and 30 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 15 sections: 66 keep time, 36 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AD
PART AF
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBPAOADAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD hard to play on drums?

60 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 24, 32, 34, 36, 40, 44 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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