No Woman, No Cry · Bob Marley

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 6:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
6:57
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-65 and 74-113 -- 76.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 78 BPM
NO WOMAN, NO CRY · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 4 sections: 133 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-65.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Woman, No Cry?

78 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 No Woman, No Cry hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 6:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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