Surrender · Dropkick Murphys

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 95 BPM
SURRENDER · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 36 and 11 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 17 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-52.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCKFTAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Surrender?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Surrender hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 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 Surrender?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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