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Hitchin' A Ride · Green Day

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBNHMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hitchin' A Ride on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-23, toms through bars 24-31, snare through bars 32-47, toms through bars 48-55 and snare through bars 56-71, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-6, 8-14 and 16-18, and 5 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4                        5
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |x-----x--x--x-----x--x--|x-----x---ggx--x--x--x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
HF |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
Hitchin' A Ride -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 23, 47, 55 and 103.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-72 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hitchin' A Ride?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hitchin' A Ride hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Hitchin' A Ride?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 23, 47, 55 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED