I Was Just a Kid · Nothing But Thieves

189 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 60 and 64, and 3 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
I WAS JUST A KID · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 14 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 13 sections: 138 keep time, 20 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-40.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGRQHW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Was Just a Kid?

180 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 I Was Just a Kid hard to play on drums?

51 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Was Just a Kid?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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