Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt · Frank Zappa

82 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8 and 18-20 -- 6.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
FEMBOT IN A WET T-SHIRT · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12 and 28 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 6 sections: 36 keep time, 34 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-38.

PART S2
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesWGBETS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt?

110 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 Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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