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.

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

TEMPO

275 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

191

LENGTH

2:47

DIFFICULTY

57/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43, snare through bars 44-70, hi-hat through bars 71-78 and snare through bars 79-98, and 8 more changes after that.

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.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Bars 70-115 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 111-143 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 173-179 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
7. Bars 181-191 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.