Weak · Anansie Skunk

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20 and 30-36 -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
WEAK · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 25, 45, 49, 53, 58 and 6 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 6 sections: 62 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-20.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBMXFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Weak?

93 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 Weak hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Weak?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 25, 45, 49, 53, 58 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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