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Woman · Wolfmother

EXERCISE 12 OF 22
Join Part E to Part G (bars 39-41)
94 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHEGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Woman on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-23, ride through bars 24-35 and snare through bars 36-40, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-80 -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    51
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |------x-----------x-----|
HH |x-----------x-----------|
SD |--x-x---------x-x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Woman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-43 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-81 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Woman?

152 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 hard to play on drums?

57 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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