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Weightless · All Time Low

EXERCISE 29 OF 44
Groove W
86 / 142 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEFAS1O+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Weightless on drums

142 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-28, toms through bars 29-31, snare through bars 32-50, hi-hat through bars 51-62, snare through bars 63-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-73, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 38-39 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Weightless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 40, 50, 66, 73, 74, 82 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-51 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-63 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus 4 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Weightless?

180 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 Weightless hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Weightless?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 40, 50, 66, 73, 74, 82 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED