Self Esteem
The Offspring · 1994
Mid-tempo punk groove with dynamic shifts ideal for beginners.
- Artist
- The Offspring
- Year
- 1994
- Genre
- punk
- Drummer
- Ron Welty
- Tempo
- 106 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- straight 8ths
- Difficulty
- beginner
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
64bpm
Building
84bpm
Target
106bpm
The feel
A straight 8ths in 4/4 around 106 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Play to a metronome and prize consistency over speed — even time is the whole game.
How to learn it
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