Sweet Talkin' Woman · Electric Light Orchestra

114 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-15, 21-23 and 25-32, and 8 more places -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
SWEET TALKIN' WOMAN · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 7, 86, 99 and 100.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 99-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 10 sections: 90 keep time, 4 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-41.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
4 groovesCES1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Talkin' Woman?

123 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 Sweet Talkin' Woman 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 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.

How many fills are in Sweet Talkin' Woman?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 7, 86, 99 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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