Bobby Sox · Green Day

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 37-43, and 5 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BOBBY SOX · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 44, 47, 48 and 5 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 8 sections: 58 keep time, 13 are fills, 12 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-70.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBES1KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bobby Sox?

106 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 Bobby Sox hard to play on drums?

55 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bobby Sox?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 44, 47, 48 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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