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WEATHERMAN · Dead Sara

WEATHERMAN · Dead Sara
EXERCISE 21 OF 62
Groove M
125 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play WEATHERMAN on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-10, snare through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-42, ride through bars 43-49 and snare through bars 50-66, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
WEATHERMAN -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-54 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-59 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 57-90 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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