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Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt · Frank Zappa

EXERCISE 8 OF 44
Groove T -- Outro
16 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART S2
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesWGBETS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 2-41, toms through bars 42-47, hi-hat through bars 48-51, toms through bars 52-54, hi-hat through bars 55-77 and toms through bars 78-82.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x---x-x-----------|
Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 3-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 2-24 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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