Cigarettes And Valentines · Green Day

120 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 17 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
CIGARETTES AND VALENTINES · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 18, 19, 43 and 9 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 9 sections: 77 keep time, 15 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-36.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGDIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cigarettes And Valentines?

190 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 Cigarettes And Valentines hard to play on drums?

58 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cigarettes And Valentines?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 18, 19, 43 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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