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Weak · Anansie Skunk

Weak · Anansie Skunk
EXERCISE 27 OF 38
Groove X -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
67 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBMXFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Weak on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, ride through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-37 and ride through bars 38-82.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x------xx-----x-|
HF |x---------------|
Weak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-67 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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