What Deaner Was Talkin' About · Ween

57 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 18-24 and 34-40 -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WHAT DEANER WAS TALKIN' ABOUT · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 9 sections: 42 keep time, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-55.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Deaner Was Talkin' About?

120 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 What Deaner Was Talkin' About hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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