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Susanne · Weezer

EXERCISE 6 OF 33
Groove F -- Part F
66 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Susanne on drums

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

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-21, hi-hat through bars 22-35, ride through bars 36-49 and toms through bars 50-51, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Susanne -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 4-36 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-80 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-117 -- 8 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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