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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

80 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

61

LENGTH

3:03

DIFFICULTY

71/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-36, snare through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52 and ride through bars 53-61.

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xgxgxgxgxgxgxgxg|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--x---xx--x---|

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

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part A and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
6. Through Part K and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.