Basket Case (Standard Tuning) · Green Day

126 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 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 up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 36 and 38, and 10 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BASKET CASE (STANDARD TUNING) · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 50, 54, 61 and 13 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 12 sections: 71 keep time, 19 are fills, 7 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-47.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
PART P
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesKAFBS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Basket Case (Standard Tuning)?

175 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 (Standard Tuning) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 (Standard Tuning)?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 50, 54, 61 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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