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The Weakest · Emery

EXERCISE 7 OF 69
Groove AQ -- Outro 2
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CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART R
CHORUS 4
PART S12
PART R
OUTRO 2
13 groovesARKAQS12+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Weakest on drums

151 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-16, hi-hat through bars 17-52 and snare through bars 53-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 15 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-x-----|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
The Weakest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 6, 12, 14, 16, 32 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-81 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 17-92 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Weakest?

170 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 The Weakest hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 The Weakest?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 6, 12, 14, 16, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED