The Quitter · NOFX

55 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 1:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
1:46
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 7 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE QUITTER · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 32, 45, 46 and 54.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 5 sections: 39 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-15.

PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Quitter?

125 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 Quitter 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Quitter?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 32, 45, 46 and 54.

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