We Might as Well Be Strangers · Weezer

97 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23, 25-31 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
WE MIGHT AS WELL BE STRANGERS · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 49, 64, 65, 76, 77 and 4 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time, 10 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-36.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
10 groovesGDS1BT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Might as Well Be Strangers?

111 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 We Might as Well Be Strangers hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 We Might as Well Be Strangers?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 49, 64, 65, 76, 77 and 4 more.

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