O Girlfriend · Weezer

105 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 33-47 and 65-79, and 1 more place -- 56.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
O GIRLFRIEND · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 48, 80, 103 and 1 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 103-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 4 sections: 72 keep time, 7 are fills and 22 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-47.

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

Questions

What BPM is O Girlfriend?

115 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 O Girlfriend 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in O Girlfriend?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 48, 80, 103 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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