American Idiot (Green Day) · Green Day

130 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 21 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
AMERICAN IDIOT (GREEN DAY) · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 68, 76, 84, 91, 92, 93 and 6 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 91-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 15 sections: 98 keep time, 14 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-36.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBKCID+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is American Idiot (Green Day)?

185 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 American Idiot (Green Day) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 American Idiot (Green Day)?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 68, 76, 84, 91, 92, 93 and 6 more.

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