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Women And Children First · Dave Badiuk

EXERCISE 14 OF 18
Fill at bar 104 (a small one)
183 / 208 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGAES1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Women And Children First on drums

208 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 5:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-144, silence through bars 145-152 and snare through bars 153-208.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 57-103, and 3 more places -- 77.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Women And Children First -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 104 and 112.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Women And Children First?

153 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 Women And Children First hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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 Women And Children First?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 104 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED