Bang Bang · Green Day

106 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 23-24 and 27-28, and 14 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BANG BANG · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 29, 33, 36, 49, 53 and 15 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 74 keep time, 21 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-48.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCLADIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bang Bang?

127 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 Bang Bang hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bang Bang?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 29, 33, 36, 49, 53 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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