Submission · Sex Pistols

121 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 14-19 and 28-29, and 5 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
SUBMISSION · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 22, 24, 25 and 24 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 15 sections: 73 keep time, 30 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-117.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART F
PART AA
PART J
OUTRO
7 groovesDFJSAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Submission?

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 Submission 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Submission?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 22, 24, 25 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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