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Week End · X JAPAN

EXERCISE 9 OF 65
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
132 / 247 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART P
CHORUS 5
PART P
CHORUS 6
7 groovesDPMAZS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Week End on drums

247 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 5:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-150, kick and crashes through bars 151-152 and toms through bars 153-154, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 29-33, and 27 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 28, 35 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-231 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Week End?

172 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 Week End hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Week End?

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 28, 35 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED