You're Gonna Go Far, Kid · The Offspring

92 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-26 and 50-52, and 7 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 126 BPM
YOU'RE GONNA GO FAR, KID · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 41, 49, 58 and 5 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You're Gonna Go Far, Kid?

126 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 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:55 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, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 41, 49, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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