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Dry Ice · Green Day

EXERCISE 7 OF 38
Join Part S2 to Chorus (bars 8-10)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART U
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesERJUS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dry Ice on drums

161 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-73, ride through bars 74-111, toms through bars 112-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-145, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 74-76, 78-80 and 82-84, and 6 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74               75
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|----------------|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x---|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Dry Ice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 9, 77, 89, 105, 112 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- R, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-30 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 15-67 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dry Ice?

182 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 Dry Ice hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

161 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dry Ice?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 9, 77, 89, 105, 112 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED