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Generator · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 39 OF 42
4-bar fill at bar 117
116 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGSKAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Generator on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-39, ride through bars 40-63, hi-hat through bars 64-77 and ride through bars 78-109, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Generator -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-27 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-40 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-106 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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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