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Opening Night · Weezer

EXERCISE 10 OF 20
Groove E
34 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS1GDS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Opening Night on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30, silence through bars 31-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, ride through bars 45-54 and snare through bars 55-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-30, 44 and 57-63, and 1 more place -- 48.8% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Opening Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 50, 51, 52, 56 and 66.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-53 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-57 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Opening Night?

112 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 Opening Night hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Opening Night?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 50, 51, 52, 56 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED