Geek Stink Breath · Green Day

74 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-17, 26-35 and 44-59, and 1 more place -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
GEEK STINK BREATH · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 21, 25, 39, 43 and 2 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 7 sections: 54 keep time, 8 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-59.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Geek Stink Breath?

131 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 Geek Stink Breath 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Geek Stink Breath?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 21, 25, 39, 43 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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