F.O.D. · Green Day

51 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 1:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
1:15
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 34-41 and 43-48 -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
F.O.D. · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 17, 25 and 42.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 4 sections: 37 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is F.O.D.?

164 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 F.O.D. hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 1:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 F.O.D.?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 17, 25 and 42.

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