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Last Of The American Girls · Green Day

EXERCISE 10 OF 31
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 20-35)
77 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFBHJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Of The American Girls on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, snare through bars 36-45, hi-hat through bars 46-61, snare through bars 62-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-87, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-35 and 46-61 -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|
Last Of The American Girls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 41, 45, 67, 71, 87 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-109 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 38-49 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-88 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-110 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Last Of The American Girls?

122 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 Last Of The American Girls 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Last Of The American Girls?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 41, 45, 67, 71, 87 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED