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Leaving Jesusland · NOFX

EXERCISE 7 OF 32
Fill at bar 16, 28, 44 and 3 more
64 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leaving Jesusland on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-25, ride through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44 and snare through bars 45-53, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Leaving Jesusland -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D, Q -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-74 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-112 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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