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King for a Day · Green Day

EXERCISE 4 OF 26
Groove B -- Outro
46 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play King for a Day on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-27, ride through bars 28-29, snare through bars 30-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-55, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
King for a Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 94-115 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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