American Woman · Lenny Kravitz

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-44 and 49-81 -- 88.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 84 BPM
AMERICAN WOMAN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 82.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 2 sections: 72 keep time, 1 is a fill, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-44.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is American Woman?

84 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 American Woman hard to play on drums?

38 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in American Woman?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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