Could Have Been A Lady · April Wine

88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-60 and 69-88 -- 86.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
COULD HAVE BEEN A LADY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 68.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 6 sections: 78 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-60.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDS1AS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Could Have Been A Lady?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Could Have Been A Lady hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Could Have Been A Lady?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 68.

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