King for a Day · Green Day

119 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22-27 and 42-48, and 5 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
KING FOR A DAY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 21, 41, 49, 55, 73 and 6 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 118-119 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 5 sections: 101 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-40.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is King for a Day?

148 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 King for a Day hard to play on drums?

64 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 King for a Day?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 21, 41, 49, 55, 73 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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