Where Is The Girl · AndrewA

163 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 1:49 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 9, and 48 more places -- 64.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 180 BPM
WHERE IS THE GIRL · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 96.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 8 sections: 119 keep time, 1 is a fill, 38 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-151.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
5 groovesEBS8S3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Is The Girl?

180 BPM, in 2/4, 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 Where Is The Girl hard to play on drums?

33 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Where Is The Girl?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 96.

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