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She Is Beautiful · Andrew W.K.

EXERCISE 24 OF 33
Join Chorus 2 to Part P (bars 100-102)
126 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART P
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJHOCP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play She Is Beautiful on drums

141 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-25, ride through bars 26-41 and snare through bars 42-49, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-40, 54-68 and 70-76 -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
RD |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
She Is Beautiful -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 50, 51, 52, 53, 69 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H, J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-25 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-45 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-101 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 98-113 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is She Is Beautiful?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is She Is Beautiful 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in She Is Beautiful?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 50, 51, 52, 53, 69 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED