Seeing Double At The Triple Rock · NOFX

121 bars at 242 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
242 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 8 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 242 BPM
SEEING DOUBLE AT THE TRIPLE ROCK · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 41, 49, 81, 89, 109 and 121.

LOOP · 242 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 242 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 242 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 14 sections: 88 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART N
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEJGBN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seeing Double At The Triple Rock?

242 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 Seeing Double At The Triple Rock hard to play on drums?

60 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

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.

How many fills are in Seeing Double At The Triple Rock?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 41, 49, 81, 89, 109 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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