Troublemaker · Weezer

89 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 2:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-54 and 73-88 -- 72.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 131 BPM
TROUBLEMAKER · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 70, 71 and 89.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 70-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 7 sections: 75 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-54.

PART A
CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBADS4C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Troublemaker?

131 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 Troublemaker hard to play on drums?

56 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Troublemaker?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 70, 71 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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