The Woodwoman · Bathory

185 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-64 and 105-120 -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE WOODWOMAN · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 7 sections: 46 keep time, 126 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-64.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesBDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Woodwoman?

128 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 The Woodwoman hard to play on drums?

31 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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