Horseshoes And Handgrenades · Green Day

115 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-14, 19-34 and 43-58, and 2 more places -- 55.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
HORSESHOES AND HANDGRENADES · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 18, 42, 70 and 115.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 115
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 12 sections: 65 keep time, 5 are fills, 29 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-114.

PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesEGICD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Horseshoes And Handgrenades?

144 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 Horseshoes And Handgrenades hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Horseshoes And Handgrenades?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 18, 42, 70 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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