Say It Aint So Band Arrangement · Weezer / Keaton Crackower

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

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 45-47 and 49, and 7 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
SAY IT AINT SO BAND ARRANGEMENT · 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, 54, 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 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

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 Aint So Band Arrangement?

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 Aint So Band Arrangement 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 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 26 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 Say It Aint So Band Arrangement?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 4, 44, 52, 54, 60 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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