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EXERCISE 31 OF 31
Play the whole song with the record
84 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 101 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
BREAK
PART S4
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 4
10 groovesFIEBS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Weakness on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-35, silence through bars 36-40, toms through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-70 and kick and crashes through bars 71-80, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 81-98 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    81                                                               82
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------x-------x-------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-----------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-x-x---x-x-----x-------x-------x-x-x---x-x-----x---|----x-------x-x-x---x-x-----x-------x-------x---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 9 times: bars 29, 31, 33, 71, 73, 75 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-32 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-60 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Break 4 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Weakness?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 9 times: bars 29, 31, 33, 71, 73, 75 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED