Leaving Jesusland · NOFX

113 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 29-35 and 37-43, and 2 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 156 BPM
LEAVING JESUSLAND · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 22, 25, 28, 44 and 15 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 11 sections: 51 keep time, 21 are fills, 23 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-43.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesDFKQS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leaving Jesusland?

156 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 Leaving Jesusland hard to play on drums?

49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Leaving Jesusland?

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 22, 25, 28, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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