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Women · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 3 OF 47
Groove E -- Part E
43 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGIAJEAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Women on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-65, snare through bars 66-68, hi-hat through bars 69-90, snare through bars 91-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-109, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-29 and 46-53 -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Women -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 65, 89, 91, 97, 98, 110 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- I, G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-66 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-88 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part S12 and Part AE -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Women?

92 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 hard to play on drums?

48 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Women?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 65, 89, 91, 97, 98, 110 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED