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Jesus of Suburbia · Green Day

EXERCISE 29 OF 104
Run M1 · Part M (bars 52-56)
169 / 392 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART M
PART S
PART S
PART Z
PART AQ
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
16 groovesASSAQDZ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 19
LINK · 12
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jesus of Suburbia on drums

392 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 10:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
392
LENGTH
10:40
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-16, snare through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-42, snare through bars 43-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 280-294, 304-318 and 340-354, and 1 more place -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    280              281
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|--x-----x-------|
Jesus of Suburbia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 34, 42, 54 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 84 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 -- AS, AQ -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-51 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-57 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jesus of Suburbia?

143 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 Jesus of Suburbia hard to play on drums?

56 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

392 bars, about 10:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 21 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Jesus of Suburbia?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 34, 42, 54 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 392 BARS ANALYSED