Punkrocker · Teddybears (feat. Iggy Pop)

141 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-24 and 26-31, and 15 more places -- 59.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
PUNKROCKER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 116.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 3 sections: 134 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-71.

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

Questions

What BPM is Punkrocker?

142 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 Punkrocker 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Punkrocker?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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