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.

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

TEMPO

124 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

112

LENGTH

3:36

DIFFICULTY

59/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-31, toms through bars 32-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-49, and 8 more changes after that.

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.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|----------------|
RD |--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-x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|

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

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- H, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 14-34 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Bars 30-70 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 68-82 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. Through Part V and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.