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Perfect Situation · Weezer

EXERCISE 19 OF 35
Groove I -- Part I
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0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDAMIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perfect Situation on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
43/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-72, ride through bars 73-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-35 and 37-40, and 6 more places -- 47.4% 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
CC |----x-------x---|
HH |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Perfect Situation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 31, 32, 36, 48, 52 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-61 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 59-76 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Perfect Situation?

94 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 Perfect Situation hard to play on drums?

43 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Perfect Situation?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 31, 32, 36, 48, 52 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED