Idiots Are Taking Over · NOFX

116 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 39-42, and 5 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
IDIOTS ARE TAKING OVER · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 23, 24, 38, 51, 52 and 4 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 12 sections: 86 keep time, 10 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-85.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEGICS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Idiots Are Taking Over?

140 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 Idiots Are Taking Over hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

116 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Idiots Are Taking Over?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 23, 24, 38, 51, 52 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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