Surfin' U.S.A. · The Beach Boys

99 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-18, 25 and 32-50, and 7 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 161 BPM
SURFIN' U.S.A. · BARS 4-5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 99.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 99
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 8 sections: 87 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-50.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Surfin' U.S.A.?

161 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 Surfin' U.S.A. hard to play on drums?

63 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Surfin' U.S.A.?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 99.

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