Weatherman · Hank Williams Jr.

103 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 10-12, and 17 more places -- 65% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WEATHERMAN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 72.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 3 sections: 85 keep time, 2 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-71.

PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Weatherman?

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 Weatherman hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet 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?

103 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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