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Basket Case (Standard Tuning) · Green Day

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove F -- Part F
0 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Basket Case (Standard Tuning) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
66/100

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 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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
Basket Case (Standard Tuning) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-51 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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