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Extraordinary Girl · Green Day

EXERCISE 19 OF 23
Groove H -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Extraordinary Girl on drums

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.

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
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, snare through bars 37-45, hi-hat through bars 46-65, snare through bars 66-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-90, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Extraordinary Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-103 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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