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Holiday [Green Day] · Green Day

EXERCISE 15 OF 38
Join Part G to Chorus (bars 30-32)
104 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJCFGQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holiday [Green Day] on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-35, snare through bars 36-37 and toms through bars 38-41, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 58-60, and 7 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x---x-------|
Holiday [Green Day] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 41, 49, 57 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-32 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-64 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Holiday [Green Day]?

147 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 Holiday [Green Day] hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Holiday [Green Day]?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 41, 49, 57 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED