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Devil Woman · Cliff Richard

Devil Woman · Cliff Richard
EXERCISE 16 OF 26
Fill at bar 68 (a small one)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
5 groovesDAHICFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devil Woman on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-23, 25-31 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 65% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Devil Woman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 52, 60, 68 and 84.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-13 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Devil Woman?

117 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 Devil Woman hard to play on drums?

46 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Devil Woman?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 52, 60, 68 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED