Brown Eyed Women · Grateful Dead

153 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-6 and 10-11, and 26 more places -- 53% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BROWN EYED WOMEN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 64, 83, 85, 111, 112 and 2 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 15 sections: 124 keep time, 9 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-51.

PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART B
CHORUS 7
3 groovesCBS14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brown Eyed Women?

110 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 Brown Eyed Women hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Brown Eyed Women?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 64, 83, 85, 111, 112 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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