There She Goes · The La's

81 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 19-28 and 30-39, and 4 more places -- 63% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
THERE SHE GOES · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 59 and 80.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 5 sections: 65 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-39.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is There She Goes?

123 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 There She Goes hard to play on drums?

47 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 She Goes?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 59 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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