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bad woman blues · Beth Hart

bad woman blues · Beth Hart
EXERCISE 17 OF 21
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 88-90)
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDHIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play bad woman blues on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-70, silence through bars 71-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-107.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
bad woman blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-52 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 51-81 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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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