There Was This Girl · Riley Green

102 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 22-24 and 26-28, and 9 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THERE WAS THIS GIRL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 19, 20, 21, 29, 31 and 16 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 9 sections: 62 keep time, 22 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBAEDMS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is There Was This Girl?

128 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 Was This Girl hard to play on drums?

51 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?

102 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Was This Girl?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 19, 20, 21, 29, 31 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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