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21 guns (Green Day) · Chet Preston

21 guns (Green Day) · Chet Preston
EXERCISE 14 OF 23
Groove N
70 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART O
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 21 guns (Green Day) on drums

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

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
30/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-42, silence through bars 43-45, hi-hat through bars 46-74, silence through bars 75-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-103.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|
21 guns (Green Day) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 41-60 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 4 -- 2 exercises, about 4 minutes.
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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