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Across The Sea · Weezer

EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART S
PART AA
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCDKIS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Across The Sea on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
6:15
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-19, snare through bars 20-27, ride through bars 28-31, snare through bars 32-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-55, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- C, D -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-39 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-59 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-113 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 84-100 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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