Suburban Home · Descendents

88 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 1:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-5, 25-28 and 55-61 -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 208 BPM
SUBURBAN HOME · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 14, 32, 37, 53, 54 and 2 more.

LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 11 sections: 51 keep time, 8 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBSKE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suburban Home?

208 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 Suburban Home hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Suburban Home?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 14, 32, 37, 53, 54 and 2 more.

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