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Weak · Lagwagon

EXERCISE 17 OF 32
Join Chorus 3 to Part L (bars 62-64)
117 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesDLHS4S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Weak on drums

128 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
85/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-9, toms through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-25 and toms through bars 26-27, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 9 and 12-13, and 12 more places -- 65% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 60-77 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 74-128 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Weak?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Weak hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. 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 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED