Crab · Weezer

68 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-17, 19-27 and 33-45, and 2 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
CRAB · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 32 and 50.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 6 sections: 56 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-27.

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

Questions

What BPM is Crab?

112 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 Crab 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Crab?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 32 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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