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My Kind of Woman · Mac Demarco

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART F
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Kind of Woman on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-34, toms through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and ride through bars 53-68, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-17 and 37-51 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |X---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x-----------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x--xx----xx-|
FT |----------------|----------xxx---|
BD |X-----x-x-----x-|x-------x-------|
My Kind of Woman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 69, 70, 71 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is My Kind of Woman?

92 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 My Kind of Woman hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor 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 My Kind of Woman?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 69, 70, 71 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED