Christie Road · Green Day

112 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 3 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
CHRISTIE ROAD · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 17, 21, 25, 29, 31 and 26 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 8 sections: 67 keep time, 32 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART S5
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHXVS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Christie Road?

124 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 Christie Road hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Christie Road?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 17, 21, 25, 29, 31 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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