Tragic Girl · Weezer

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17-23 and 25-28, and 7 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 95 BPM
TRAGIC GIRL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 30, 58, 87, 91, 95, 96 and 8 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 95-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 11 sections: 83 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-29.

PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDGCTO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tragic Girl?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Tragic Girl hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Tragic Girl?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 30, 58, 87, 91, 95, 96 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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