Susanne · Weezer

117 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 128 BPM, 2:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-19, 36-48 and 66-67, and 2 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SUSANNE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 5, 20, 21, 34, 35 and 12 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 49-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 11 sections: 82 keep time, 18 are fills, 6 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-19.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART J
7 groovesCJFS1S11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Susanne?

128 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Susanne hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 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 Susanne?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 5, 20, 21, 34, 35 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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