21st Century (Digital Boy) · Bad Religion

91 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 15-16 and 21, and 9 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
21ST CENTURY (DIGITAL BOY) · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 19, 29 and 9 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 9 sections: 53 keep time, 15 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-55.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART K
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIBKCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 21st Century (Digital Boy)?

130 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 21st Century (Digital Boy) hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 21st Century (Digital Boy)?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 19, 29 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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