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Weirdo Man · Uncle Slam

Weirdo Man · Uncle Slam
EXERCISE 15 OF 25
Groove J
79 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Weirdo Man on drums

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.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, ride through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-65 and ride through bars 66-73, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Weirdo Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-37 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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