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Give Me Novacaine · Green Day

EXERCISE 26 OF 26
Play the whole song with the record
132 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 132 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give Me Novacaine on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-44, hi-hat through bars 45-70 and snare through bars 71-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-27, 45-67 and 121-131 -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 43, 44, 83, 84, 104, 119 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 28-85 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-83 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 80-123 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Give Me Novacaine?

154 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 Give Me Novacaine hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Give Me Novacaine?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 43, 44, 83, 84, 104, 119 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED