American Woman
The Guess Who · 1970
A dynamic arrangement moving from quiet blues to heavy rock, teaching control.
- Artist
- The Guess Who
- Year
- 1970
- Genre
- classic rock
- Drummer
- Garry Peterson
- Tempo
- 112 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- heavy blues-rock groove
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
68bpm
Building
90bpm
Target
112bpm
The feel
A heavy blues-rock groove in 4/4 around 112 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Play to a metronome and prize consistency over speed — even time is the whole game.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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Learn it
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