Weightless · Not Animals As Leaders

123 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 4:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46, 48 and 50, and 5 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
WEIGHTLESS · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 26, 30, 47, 49, 53, 54 and 19 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 16 sections: 53 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-13.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesVAMS16DAW+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Weightless?

115 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Weightless hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Weightless?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 26, 30, 47, 49, 53, 54 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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