Punk Rock 101 · Bowling For Soup

87 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 12-18, and 11 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
PUNK ROCK 101 · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 86 and 87.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 86-87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 5 sections: 79 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-85.

CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
4 groovesCIS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Punk Rock 101?

124 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 Punk Rock 101 hard to play on drums?

53 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?

87 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Punk Rock 101?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 86 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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