When I Grow Up · Original Broadway Cast Of Matilda The Musical, Tim Minchin

51 bars, 2:36, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8 and 15-20 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 74 BPM
WHEN I GROW UP · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 25, 26, 27, 29 and 51.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 51

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 5 sections: 17 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS5EHDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When I Grow Up?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is When I Grow Up hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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 When I Grow Up?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 25, 26, 27, 29 and 51.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 51 BARS ANALYSED
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