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2000 Light Years Away · Green Day

EXERCISE 18 OF 31
Groove M (a two-bar phrase)
102 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 2000 Light Years Away on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-47, ride through bars 48-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-85, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
2000 Light Years Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-72 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-70 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 68-97 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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