Punk Rock Loser (Complete) · Viagra Boys

117 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-36, 38-68 and 70-116 -- 97.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
PUNK ROCK LOSER (COMPLETE) · BARS 2-3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 2 sections: 116 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-117.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Punk Rock Loser (Complete)?

118 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 Loser (Complete) hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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