21st Century Breakdown · Green Day

161 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-90, 93 and 95, and 10 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN · BAR 89
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 32, 40, 44 and 13 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 12 sections: 118 keep time, 19 are fills, 5 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-87.

PART D
PART D
PART N
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRNDFZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 21st Century Breakdown?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 21st Century Breakdown hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 21st Century Breakdown?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 32, 40, 44 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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