Take It Like A Woman · Alice Cooper

64 bars, 3:39, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
TAKE IT LIKE A WOMAN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 35, 49 and 7 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 7 sections: 29 keep time, 13 are fills, 6 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-10.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesBS6FIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take It Like A Woman?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Take It Like A Woman hard to play on drums?

35 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Take It Like A Woman?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 35, 49 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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