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Buddy Holly · Weezer

EXERCISE 17 OF 19
Play the whole song with the record
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PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesFABS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Buddy Holly on drums

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

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-34, ride through bars 35-40, hi-hat through bars 41-50 and snare through bars 51-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Buddy Holly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- F, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-66 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED