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Widow · Black Rose

Widow · Black Rose
EXERCISE 3 OF 29
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
35 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesHBLS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Widow on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-67 and silence through bars 68-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 6 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|------------x---|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-o---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x-----x-|x--x---xx-----x-|
HF |----------------|------------x---|
Widow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 33, 34, 36, 37, 42 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- H, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Widow?

80 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 Widow hard to play on drums?

59 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Widow?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 33, 34, 36, 37, 42 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED