Coming Clean · Green Day

66 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 1:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:33
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 17-23 and 33-39, and 1 more place -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 171 BPM
COMING CLEAN · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 and 6 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time, 12 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesGDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coming Clean?

171 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 Coming Clean hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Coming Clean?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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