Your Best American Girl · Mitski

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 36-38 and 45-47 -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
YOUR BEST AMERICAN GIRL · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 48 and 3 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 48-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 9 sections: 36 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-22.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
7 groovesJCS1AR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Your Best American Girl?

77 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 Your Best American Girl hard to play on drums?

36 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Your Best American Girl?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 48 and 3 more.

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