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Bang Bang · Green Day

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCLADIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bang Bang on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-54, snare through bars 55-69, toms through bars 70-80, hi-hat through bars 81-88 and toms through bars 89-90, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx-x-x--xx--|
Bang Bang -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-28 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-70 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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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