Sweater Weather · The Neighbourhood

118 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-28, 37-47 and 49-51, and 1 more place -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
SWEATER WEATHER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 8 sections: 99 keep time, 5 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-47.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAEDS6S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweater Weather?

122 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 Sweater Weather hard to play on drums?

28 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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