The Separation Of Church And Skate · NOFX

191 bars at 275 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
275 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 44-50 and 52-58, and 18 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 275 BPM
THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND SKATE · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 43, 63, 78, 98, 114, 141 and 1 more.

LOOP · 275 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 275 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 275 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
LOOP · 275 BPM
BARS 141-142 · LANDS ON BAR 143 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 18 sections: 115 keep time, 7 are fills, 41 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-27.

PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
10 groovesCEBOJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Separation Of Church And Skate?

275 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 Separation Of Church And Skate hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Separation Of Church And Skate?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 43, 63, 78, 98, 114, 141 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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