Weakness · 870621345

136 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-56, 58-64 and 66-72, and 4 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WEAKNESS · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 12 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 9 sections: 73 keep time, 18 are fills, 17 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

CHORUS
PART S4
PART H
PART S6
PART H
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesCHS4S6S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Weakness?

120 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 Weakness hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Weakness?

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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