Outside Woman Blues · Cream

68 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 10 and 14, and 8 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
OUTSIDE WOMAN BLUES · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 29 and 9 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 9 sections: 42 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-7.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDMCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Outside Woman Blues?

116 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 Outside Woman Blues hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Outside Woman Blues?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 29 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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