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Evil Woman · Electric Light Orchestra

EXERCISE 4 OF 16
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-5)
116 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesDS2AS5S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evil Woman on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
48/100

ride through bars 1-6, silence through bars 7-11 and ride through bars 12-131.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-30, 33-55 and 58-79, and 2 more places -- 88.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 11, 32, 57, 82 and 107.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-33 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Evil Woman?

105 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 Evil Woman hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Evil Woman?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 11, 32, 57, 82 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED