At the Library · Green Day

111 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:39
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 19, 21 and 23, and 26 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 168 BPM
AT THE LIBRARY · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 26, 34, 42 and 8 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 8 sections: 86 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-64.

PART C
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLSCFJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is At the Library?

168 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 At the Library hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 At the Library?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 26, 34, 42 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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