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Weakness · 870621345

EXERCISE 11 OF 23
Run S41 · Part S4 (bars 42-50)
101 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S4
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Weakness on drums

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.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
33/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-42, silence through bars 43-49, ride through bars 50-75 and silence through bars 76-82, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Weakness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- H, C -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 42-75 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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