Green Machine · Kyuss

149 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 45-51 and 53-59, and 4 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 168 BPM
GREEN MACHINE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 28, 43, 52, 76, 83 and 6 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 12 sections: 118 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-123.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART K
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Green Machine?

168 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 Green Machine hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Green Machine?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 28, 43, 52, 76, 83 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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