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Why Bother? · Weezer

EXERCISE 23 OF 42
Groove L -- Part L
58 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Why Bother? on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-46, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------gx-x-----|
Why Bother? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-27 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-63 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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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