Working For The Weekend · Loverboy

133 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-8 and 11-24, and 19 more places -- 54.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 147 BPM
WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 25, 71, 101, 105, 123 and 5 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 5 sections: 112 keep time, 12 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-70.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
VERSE
OUTRO
3 groovesCGJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Working For The Weekend?

147 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 Working For The Weekend hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Working For The Weekend?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 25, 71, 101, 105, 123 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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