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Know Your Enemy · Green Day

EXERCISE 19 OF 22
Join Part A to Break (bars 77-79)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART A
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesCAES7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Know Your Enemy on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-36, snare through bars 37-43, hi-hat through bars 44-50, snare through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-35 and 37-43, and 2 more places -- 53.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-----|
Know Your Enemy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44, 52, 60 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-78 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Know Your Enemy?

130 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 Know Your Enemy hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Know Your Enemy?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44, 52, 60 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED