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No Woman No Cry · Bob Marley & The Wailers

EXERCISE 3 OF 32
Groove G -- Outro 2
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0 / 32 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART H, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFGCHD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Woman No Cry on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28 and 37-52 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x--x--------x-----x-----x--x--------x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |------------x-----------------x-----x-----------|
No Woman No Cry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-40 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-60 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-69 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No Woman No Cry?

99 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 No Woman No Cry hard to play on drums?

53 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 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.

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