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At the Library · Green Day

EXERCISE 24 OF 41
2-bar fill at bar 65 and 1 more
90 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART R
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play At the Library on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, ride through bars 59-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-74, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
At the Library -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- J, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-36 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 72-87 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-107 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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