I Got A Woman · Kenny Wayne Shepherd

119 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-15 and 18, and 15 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
I GOT A WOMAN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 25, 31, 55, 69, 73 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 10 sections: 90 keep time, 13 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

PART B
PART C
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesJBCHGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Got A Woman?

120 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 I Got A Woman hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Got A Woman?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 25, 31, 55, 69, 73 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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