Strange Kind Of Woman · Deep Purple

129 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-16 and 18-21, and 22 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
STRANGE KIND OF WOMAN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 17, 34 and 17 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 5 sections: 96 keep time, 23 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-86.

PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesHAGGAFS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strange Kind Of Woman?

128 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 Strange Kind Of Woman hard to play on drums?

60 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Strange Kind Of Woman?

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 17, 34 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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