Dilemma · Green Day

98 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 38-40, and 7 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DILEMMA · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 37, 45, 53, 65, 67 and 6 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 77-79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 7 sections: 68 keep time, 13 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCJGS1FFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dilemma?

120 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 Dilemma hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Dilemma?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 37, 45, 53, 65, 67 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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