Buddy Holly · Weezer

80 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 41-49 and 51-62, and 1 more place -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BUDDY HOLLY · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 14, 39, 40, 63, 64 and 1 more.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-62.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesFABS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Buddy Holly?

121 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 Buddy Holly hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Buddy Holly?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 14, 39, 40, 63, 64 and 1 more.

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