Weird song · Dreadmaw

104 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 9 and 17, and 4 more places -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
WEIRD SONG · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 34, 35, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 13 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 6 sections: 23 keep time, 19 are fills, 43 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-60.

CHORUS
PART I
PART R
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS6IHRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Weird song?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Weird song hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Weird song?

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 34, 35, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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