21 guns (Green Day) · Chet Preston

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:54 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-29, 31 and 33, and 5 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
21 GUNS (GREEN DAY) · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 103.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 103
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 1 is a fill and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-42.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART O
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
9 groovesFCJS8O+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 21 guns (Green Day)?

84 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 21 guns (Green Day) hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in 21 guns (Green Day)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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