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Dirty Women · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 3 OF 53
Groove B -- Part B
98 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART B
PART B
PART L
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesWLBUD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirty Women on drums

216 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 7:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-54, hi-hat through bars 55-70, ride through bars 71-84, hi-hat through bars 85-136 and ride through bars 137-216.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 137-139, 141-143 and 145-147, and 14 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    137              138
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---------|x-------------x-|
Dirty Women -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 30, 40, 42, 44, 50 and 25 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 -- W, L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-79 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dirty Women?

112 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 Dirty Women hard to play on drums?

51 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 7:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Dirty Women?

8 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 30, 40, 42, 44, 50 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED