1000 More Fools · Bad Religion

62 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 1:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 15 and 19-24, and 5 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 149 BPM
1000 MORE FOOLS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 36, 44, 61 and 62.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 149 BPM
BARS 61-62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 6 sections: 48 keep time, 5 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-34.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1000 More Fools?

149 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 1000 More Fools hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 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 1000 More Fools?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 36, 44, 61 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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