bad woman blues · Beth Hart

107 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-21, 30-32 and 34-45, and 4 more places -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAD WOMAN BLUES · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 94, 97 and 98.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 97-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 11 sections: 83 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-21.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDHIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is bad woman blues?

120 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 bad woman blues hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in bad woman blues?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 94, 97 and 98.

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