Be Like a Woman · Chris Rainbow

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 8, and 19 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BE LIKE A WOMAN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 11, 25, 49, 50, 51 and 4 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 49-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 7 sections: 60 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-21.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCJLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Be Like a Woman?

80 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 Be Like a Woman hard to play on drums?

44 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Be Like a Woman?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 11, 25, 49, 50, 51 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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