Jesus of Suburbia · Green Day

392 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 10:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
392
LENGTH
10:40
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 280-294, 304-318 and 340-354, and 1 more place -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
JESUS OF SUBURBIA · BARS 280-281
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 34, 42, 54 and 38 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

392 bars across 24 sections: 179 keep time, 44 are fills, 125 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 229-271.

PART S
PART S
PART Z
PART AQ
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
16 groovesASSAQDZ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jesus of Suburbia?

143 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 Jesus of Suburbia hard to play on drums?

56 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

392 bars, about 10:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 21 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Jesus of Suburbia?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 34, 42, 54 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 392 BARS ANALYSED
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