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Devotion · Weezer

EXERCISE 10 OF 26
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 2-18)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devotion on drums

66 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 250 BPM, 0:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
0:48
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50, ride through bars 51-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-66.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 6 more places -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 18, 37, 42, 43 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-51 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 47-63 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Devotion?

250 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Devotion hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 0:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Devotion?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 18, 37, 42, 43 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED