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Weight of Sound · Stick Figure

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove J -- Chorus
0 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
PART B
VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART S10
PART P
VERSE 3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJCFBR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Weight of Sound on drums

129 bars, 7:16, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
7:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-49, silence through bars 50-52, hi-hat through bars 53-69, silence through bars 70-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-58, 77-79 and 92-104, and 3 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxx---x-xxx----|
Weight of Sound -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 28, 48 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-49 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Weight of Sound?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Weight of Sound hard to play on drums?

55 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 7:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Weight of Sound?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 28, 48 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED