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Geek Stink Breath · Green Day

EXERCISE 18 OF 19
Fill at bar 43 and 67
74 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Geek Stink Breath on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-39 and snare through bars 40-43, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes. Open above.
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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