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Busy Woman (Live at Coachella) · Sabrina Carpenter

EXERCISE 16 OF 31
7-bar fill at bar 65
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0 / 31 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Busy Woman (Live at Coachella) on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-68, toms through bars 69-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-26, and 7 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Busy Woman (Live at Coachella) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 24, 45, 47, 55, 65 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-89 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-81 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 73-93 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Busy Woman (Live at Coachella)?

118 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 Busy Woman (Live at Coachella) 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Busy Woman (Live at Coachella)?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 24, 45, 47, 55, 65 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED