Only Women Bleed PJ · Alice Cooper

61 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 6 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ONLY WOMEN BLEED PJ · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 6, 22, 29, 37, 38 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 10 sections: 26 keep time, 13 are fills, 5 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-53.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S7
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJS7EL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only Women Bleed PJ?

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 Only Women Bleed PJ hard to play on drums?

36 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Only Women Bleed PJ?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 6, 22, 29, 37, 38 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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