Bleed American · Jimmy Eat World

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BLEED AMERICAN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 28, 60 and 61.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 60-61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 5 sections: 49 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

CHORUS
PART A
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCOKAMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bleed American?

80 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 Bleed American hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bleed American?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 28, 60 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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