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Where Is The Girl · AndrewA

EXERCISE 6 OF 16
Groove E -- Chorus
106 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 49 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
5 groovesEBS8S3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where Is The Girl on drums

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

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
33/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-35, hi-hat through bars 36-50, snare through bars 51-96, hi-hat through bars 97-111 and snare through bars 112-151, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a
SD |----x---|
BD |x-----x-|
Where Is The Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED