Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy) · Fall Out Boy

108 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-27, 38 and 52-55, and 3 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
GRAND THEFT AUTUMN (WHERE IS YOUR BOY) · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 19, 23, 35, 37, 43 and 13 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 56-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 16 sections: 56 keep time, 19 are fills, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-82.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
PART T
OUTRO 2
10 groovesITMS1C+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy)?

135 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 Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy) hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy)?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 19, 23, 35, 37, 43 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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