Woman · John Lennon

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17 and 19-25, and 7 more places -- 87.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WOMAN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 26, 40, 48, 56 and 64.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars: 66 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Woman?

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 Woman hard to play on drums?

41 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 26, 40, 48, 56 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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