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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

198 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

148

LENGTH

2:59

DIFFICULTY

55/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-12, toms through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-64, ride through bars 65-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-112, and 3 more changes after that.

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|

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

It cuts the song into 27 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
2. Bars 9-33 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 24-50 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 77-148 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.