Basket Case · Green Day

127 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30, 35-40 and 42-48, and 7 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 · 170 BPM
BASKET CASE · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 50, 54, 61 and 14 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 8 sections: 74 keep time, 20 are fills, 8 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-49.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART O
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFKOBI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Basket Case?

170 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 Basket Case hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Basket Case?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 50, 54, 61 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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