Last Night On Earth · Green Day

53 bars, 3:32, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 20-31 and 39-46 -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 60 BPM
LAST NIGHT ON EARTH · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 19, 38 and 53.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 7 sections: 41 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last Night On Earth?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Last Night On Earth hard to play on drums?

34 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Last Night On Earth?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 19, 38 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 53 BARS ANALYSED
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