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Surf Wax America · Weezer

EXERCISE 27 OF 27
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART J
PART S10
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFAGIB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Surf Wax America on drums

120 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-68 and snare through bars 69-73, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 28 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 36.8% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Surf Wax America -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 29, 30 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-65 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-73 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-104 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Surf Wax America?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Surf Wax America hard to play on drums?

56 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Surf Wax America?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 29, 30 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED