Tattoo'd Lady · Rory Gallagher

138 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-25 and 42-44, and 5 more places -- 44.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TATTOO'D LADY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 37, 56, 57, 61, 81, 85 and 9 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 15 sections: 94 keep time, 15 are fills, 6 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-25.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEFS1T+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tattoo'd Lady?

120 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 Tattoo'd Lady hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tattoo'd Lady?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 37, 56, 57, 61, 81, 85 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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