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The Weekend · Modern Baseball

EXERCISE 29 OF 34
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 93-95)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFKS1I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Weekend on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-34, toms through bars 35-50, ride through bars 51-66, toms through bars 67-74 and ride through bars 75-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 10 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 22, 30, 54, 58, 73 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-75 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Weekend?

120 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 The Weekend hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 The Weekend?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 22, 30, 54, 58, 73 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED