A Real Mother For Ya' · Johnny 'Guitar' Watson

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

99 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

121

LENGTH

4:53

DIFFICULTY

50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, snare through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-62, snare through bars 63-64, hi-hat through bars 65-68 and kick and crashes through bars 69-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-21 and 23, and 18 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 63, 64, 68, 99, 100 and 102.

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
6. Through Part A and the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. Bars 76-106 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.