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Father Of All Motherfuckers · Green Day

EXERCISE 31 OF 38
Run C2 · Part C (bars 44-58)
99 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesKDCS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Father Of All Motherfuckers on drums

103 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-56, snare through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-66 and ride through bars 67-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 12, and 15 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-g--x--g----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Father Of All Motherfuckers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 20, 21 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-39 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-103 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Father Of All Motherfuckers?

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 Father Of All Motherfuckers hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Father Of All Motherfuckers?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 20, 21 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED