Fat Lip · Sum 41

145 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 21 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
FAT LIP · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 40, 50, 66, 74, 104 and 3 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 16 sections: 72 keep time, 9 are fills, 33 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-28.

PART F
PART M
PART F
PART M
BREAK 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDFMRS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fat Lip?

195 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 Fat Lip 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fat Lip?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 40, 50, 66, 74, 104 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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