Woman From Tokyo · Deep Purple

176 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-21 and 64-79 -- 21% 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
WOMAN FROM TOKYO · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 38, 46, 54 and 10 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 15 sections: 120 keep time, 17 are fills and 22 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART S
PART O
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAOKID+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Woman From Tokyo?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Woman From Tokyo hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Woman From Tokyo?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 38, 46, 54 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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