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The Woman In You · Ben Harper

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Woman In You on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 3-56, silence through bars 57-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-89.

The beat

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.

    3                        4
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------r-----------r-----|------r-----------r-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|x----------xx--x----x---|
The Woman In You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-48 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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