Say It Ain't So
Weezer · 1994
Dynamic arrangement building from a laid-back groove to a driving chorus.
- Artist
- Weezer
- Year
- 1994
- Genre
- alt-rock
- Drummer
- Patrick Wilson
- Tempo
- 76 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- half-time to driving
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
46bpm
Building
60bpm
Target
76bpm
The feel
A half-time to driving in 4/4 around 76 BPM. It's slow — the space between hits is the hard part; keep the pulse dead steady and resist filling gaps.
What to watch
- •Feel the backbeat on beat 3. Resist collapsing it into a straight-time groove.
- •Sit just behind the beat and let it breathe; don't chase the click forward.
- •Keep the quarter-note kick relentless and even — it's the engine.
How to learn it
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