The Woman In You · Ben Harper

89 bars, 5:37, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-20, 27-41 and 60-65 -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 63 BPM
THE WOMAN IN YOU · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 52, 55, 77, 85 and 88.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 11 sections: 69 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-19.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBGDS8S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Woman In You?

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

Is The Woman In You hard to play on drums?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Woman In You?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 52, 55, 77, 85 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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