Transdermal Celebration · Ween

122 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 33-39 and 41-47, and 5 more places -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
TRANSDERMAL CELEBRATION · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 48, 54, 55, 56, 72 and 3 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 113-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 12 sections: 64 keep time, 9 are fills, 25 are stops and 18 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesCES1S12N+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Transdermal Celebration?

148 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 Transdermal Celebration hard to play on drums?

46 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Transdermal Celebration?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 48, 54, 55, 56, 72 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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