Why Bother? · Weezer

71 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 27-33 and 35-37, and 6 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WHY BOTHER? · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 34 and 11 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 7 sections: 45 keep time, 17 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBRLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Why Bother??

140 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 Why Bother? hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Why Bother??

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 34 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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