WEATHERMAN · Dead Sara

179 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 51-53 and 55-57, and 12 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 168 BPM
WEATHERMAN · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 26, 34, 42, 54, 58 and 16 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 16 sections: 100 keep time, 22 are fills, 29 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-77.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART V
PART S13
PART D
11 groovesFDLS13V+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is WEATHERMAN?

168 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 WEATHERMAN hard to play on drums?

56 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 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 WEATHERMAN?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 26, 34, 42, 54, 58 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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