The Authority Song · Jimmy Eat World

109 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:30
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 17-21, 39-43 and 53-56, and 2 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
THE AUTHORITY SONG · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 22, 44, 60, 63, 64 and 4 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 13 sections: 70 keep time, 10 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-90.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGJADT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Authority Song?

124 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 The Authority Song 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 The Authority Song?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 22, 44, 60, 63, 64 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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