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Dilemma · Green Day

EXERCISE 31 OF 33
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 92-94)
88 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dilemma on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-53, snare through bars 54-57 and ride through bars 58-77, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Dilemma -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-60 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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