Bob · NOFX

84 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 1:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
1:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17 and 50-59 -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BOB · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 75.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-49.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCEGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bob?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bob hard to play on drums?

61 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 1:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Bob?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 75.

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