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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

170 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

127

LENGTH

2:59

DIFFICULTY

62/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50 and ride through bars 51-60, and 5 more changes after that.

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.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Bars 31-109 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 55-68 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
7. Through Part O and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part I and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.