I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams · Weezer

84 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

84

LENGTH

2:35

DIFFICULTY

42/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, snare through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 18-19 and 30-35, and 3 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 83.

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 14-69 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 18-58 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Bars 59-80 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.