Say It Ain't So · Weezer

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 45-47 and 49, and 5 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
SAY IT AIN'T SO · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 4, 44, 52, 58, 60 and 4 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 11 sections: 50 keep time, 10 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-31.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEFICS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Say It Ain't So?

76 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 Say It Ain't So 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Say It Ain't So?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 4, 44, 52, 58, 60 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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