2000 Light Years Away · Green Day

111 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 8, and 16 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 187 BPM
2000 LIGHT YEARS AWAY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 17, 19, 20, 25, 27 and 15 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 21 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-38.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIDGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 2000 Light Years Away?

187 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 2000 Light Years Away hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 2000 Light Years Away?

4 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 17, 19, 20, 25, 27 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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