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Coming Clean · Green Day

EXERCISE 8 OF 25
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 7-9)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Coming Clean on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:33
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-40, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|--x---x-x-----x-|
Coming Clean -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-32 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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