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Bobby Sox · Green Day

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBES1KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bobby Sox on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-44, snare through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-88 and kick and crashes through bars 89-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 37-43, and 5 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Bobby Sox -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 44, 47, 48 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-64 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bobby Sox?

106 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 Bobby Sox hard to play on drums?

55 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Bobby Sox?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 44, 47, 48 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED