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Could Have Been A Lady · April Wine

EXERCISE 10 OF 15
Fill at bar 68
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0 / 15 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDS1AS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Could Have Been A Lady on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-88.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |------------------------x-------|
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---o-------|
SD |--------x-----xx--x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x---------x-----x-----x---|
Could Have Been A Lady -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-64 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED