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Say It Aint So Band Arrangement · Weezer / Keaton Crackower

Say It Aint So Band Arrangement · Weezer / Keaton Crackower
EXERCISE 21 OF 33
Join Chorus 3 to Outro (bars 48-50)
70 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, 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 Aint So Band Arrangement on drums

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

46 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
46/100

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 37-50, and 4 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 7 more places -- 29.7% 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 Aint So Band Arrangement -- 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, 54, 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 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-49 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-66 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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