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Weird song · Dreadmaw

Weird song · Dreadmaw
EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove A
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CHORUS
PART I
PART R
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS6IHRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Weird song on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-32, toms through bars 33-37, ride through bars 38-49, snare through bars 50-61 and ride through bars 62-74, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------------x---|
SD |f---------------|
T1 |--x-------------|
FT |----x---x-------|
BD |--x-x---x---x---|
Weird song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A, R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-66 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-80 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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