Sweater Song · Weezer

163 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-34, 43-50 and 52-58 -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SWEATER SONG · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 75, 91 and 162.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 162 · LANDS ON BAR 163
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 2 sections: 60 keep time, 4 are fills and 97 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-34.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweater Song?

160 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 Sweater Song hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 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 Sweater Song?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 75, 91 and 162.

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