The Kids Aren't Alright · The Offspring

148 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 47, and 7 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 198 BPM
THE KIDS AREN'T ALRIGHT · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 13 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 11-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 10 sections: 112 keep time, 19 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-45.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGLJBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Kids Aren't Alright?

198 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 The Kids Aren't Alright hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 The Kids Aren't Alright?

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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