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Troublemaker · Weezer

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 15 PASSED · 60 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBADS4C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Troublemaker on drums

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

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-55, silence through bars 56-60, ride through bars 61-69, kick and crashes through bars 70-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-89.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----X-------x---|
BD |x-----X---x-----|
Troublemaker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 11-72 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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