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American Woman · Lenny Kravitz

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 7 PASSED · 69 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play American Woman on drums

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

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-82.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
American Woman -- 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 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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