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Cleopatra · Weezer

EXERCISE 17 OF 51
Fill at bar 41
62 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART Q
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
9 groovesECQRV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cleopatra on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33 and ride through bars 34-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 34-36, and 3 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 37, 41, 46, 47, 68, 76 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-44 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-48 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 42-52 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-63 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cleopatra?

118 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 Cleopatra hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 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 Cleopatra?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 37, 41, 46, 47, 68, 76 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED