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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

190 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

126

LENGTH

2:39

DIFFICULTY

62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, snare through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62, ride through bars 63-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-126.

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 35 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Through Part D and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 61-76 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Bars 79-89 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
8. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.