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O Girlfriend · Weezer

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play O Girlfriend on drums

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

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
50/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
O Girlfriend -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 53-68 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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