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Woman On The Screen · Boris

EXERCISE 9 OF 34
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 32-34)
76 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART G
BREAK
PART AF
OUTRO
8 groovesFTDGAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Woman On The Screen on drums

128 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-37 and toms through bars 38-41, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-32, and 3 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-----------x---x-------x---|
Woman On The Screen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 77, 80 and 125.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-25 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-41 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 38-65 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-102 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Woman On The Screen?

193 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Woman On The Screen hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 On The Screen?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 77, 80 and 125.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED