Out On The Weekend · Neil Young

78 bars, 4:35, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-26, 37-57 and 67-73, and 1 more place -- 71.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 68 BPM
OUT ON THE WEEKEND · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 5 sections: 70 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-27.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Out On The Weekend?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Out On The Weekend hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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