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There Was This Girl · Riley Green

There Was This Girl · Riley Green
EXERCISE 5 OF 50
Groove AE -- Outro 2
30 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play There Was This Girl on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-57, ride through bars 58-63 and snare through bars 64-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
There Was This Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-78 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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