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American Jesus · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play American Jesus on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 3-17, ride through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-35, ride through bars 36-41, hi-hat through bars 42-54 and ride through bars 55-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 9-16 and 23-34, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
American Jesus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 17, 22, 35 and 54.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-76 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is American Jesus?

91 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 American Jesus hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 American Jesus?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 17, 22, 35 and 54.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED