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weeeeeee 2 · To Suffer is Human

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove H -- Part H
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0 / 55 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART J, PART H
PART C
PART J
PART H
PART L
PART R
PART H
PART W
PART Z
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesAECS10HJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play weeeeeee 2 on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-39, ride through bars 40-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-54, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 3 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
weeeeeee 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 22, 28, 30, 36, 38 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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, A (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-27 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is weeeeeee 2?

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 weeeeeee 2 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 weeeeeee 2?

12 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 22, 28, 30, 36, 38 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED