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Say It Ain't So · Weezer

EXERCISE 22 OF 33
Fill at bar 52 (a small one)
69 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Say It Ain't So on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:00 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
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
50/100

ride through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-32, ride through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Say It Ain't So -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F, E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-50 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-69 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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