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Woman From Tokyo · Deep Purple

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove A -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Woman From Tokyo on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
70/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    64
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-x-x-x--x--x--x--|
BD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
Woman From Tokyo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-162 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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