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Christian Woman · Type O Negative

EXERCISE 9 OF 57
Groove G
90 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
PART F
PART F
PART B
PART S9
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesWFBS9L+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Christian Woman on drums

200 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 8:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
8:53
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-12, hi-hat through bars 13-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45 and snare through bars 46-53, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 10 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 29, 33 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F, W -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-119 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 140-146 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Christian Woman?

90 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 Christian Woman hard to play on drums?

42 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 8:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Christian Woman?

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 29, 33 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED