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Latch Key Kids · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove C -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART A
PART B
PART G
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesCBGAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Latch Key Kids on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, silence through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and silence through bars 34-36, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    41               42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-------x-|--x---x---------|
HH |--o-o---o-o-o---|o---o-----------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---xxxxx-x-|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|x-x---x-----x-x-|
Latch Key Kids -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 7-17 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED