Across The Sea · Weezer

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 6:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
6:15
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-19, 40-53 and 72-73, and 6 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 87 BPM
ACROSS THE SEA · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 54 and 27 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 28-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 63-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 15 sections: 72 keep time, 33 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-53.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART S
PART AA
PART K
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCDKIS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Across The Sea?

87 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 Across The Sea hard to play on drums?

46 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 6:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Across The Sea?

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 54 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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