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Is She Weird · Pixies

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove A -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Is She Weird on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-27, hi-hat through bars 28-42, ride through bars 43-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 18-26 and 44, and 2 more places -- 46.9% 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+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---xx-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Is She Weird -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 45.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 3-42 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-58 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Is She Weird?

110 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 Is She Weird hard to play on drums?

52 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Is She Weird?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED