Take Control · Weezer

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

102 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

76

LENGTH

2:59

DIFFICULTY

66/100

hi-hat through bars 3-14, snare through bars 15-20, hi-hat through bars 21-32, snare through bars 33-38, hi-hat through bars 39-58 and snare through bars 59-61, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 33-39 and 61-62 -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--g----x--g|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|

7 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 14, 22, 32, 40, 41 and 20 more.

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
3. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through Part E and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.