Stupid Song · Teenage Bottlerocket

126 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5-7, and 11 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
STUPID SONG · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 26, 34, 42, 46, 54 and 11 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 12 sections: 71 keep time, 17 are fills and 25 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
PART E
3 groovesADEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stupid Song?

190 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 Stupid Song hard to play on drums?

62 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Stupid Song?

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 26, 34, 42, 46, 54 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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