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.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

91

LENGTH

2:48

DIFFICULTY

52/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-41, and 6 more changes after that.

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.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|

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

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Bars 5-27 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 26-51 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Through Part B and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 28-48 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Through Part I and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.