Latch Key Kids · Bad Religion

66 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 1:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Punk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14, 31 and 37, and 1 more place -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
LATCH KEY KIDS · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 23 and 38.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 8 sections: 51 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-66.

PART A
PART B
PART G
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesCBGAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Latch Key Kids?

145 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 Latch Key Kids hard to play on drums?

52 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Latch Key Kids?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 23 and 38.

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