Weirdo Man · Uncle Slam

86 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 34-40 and 58-64, and 4 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WEIRDO MAN · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 16 and 85.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 3 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-14.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGIAKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Weirdo Man?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Weirdo Man hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 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 Weirdo Man?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 16 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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