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When The Weight Comes Down · Tragically Hip

EXERCISE 5 OF 27
Groove D -- Part D
68 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART G
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDGIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When The Weight Comes Down on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-2 and hi-hat through bars 3-143.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-11, 13 and 15-25, and 11 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
When The Weight Comes Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 50, 66, 124 and 128.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 4 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 97-129 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is When The Weight Comes Down?

124 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 When The Weight Comes Down hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in When The Weight Comes Down?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 50, 66, 124 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED