Extraordinary Girl · Green Day

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 29-35, and 5 more places -- 49.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
EXTRAORDINARY GIRL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 45, 49, 57 and 6 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 8 sections: 77 keep time, 12 are fills, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-100.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBES1HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Extraordinary Girl?

103 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 Extraordinary Girl 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Extraordinary Girl?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 45, 49, 57 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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