Generator · Bad Religion

120 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 13 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 147 BPM
GENERATOR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 22 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time and 28 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGSKAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Generator?

147 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 Generator hard to play on drums?

62 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Generator?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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