Lazy Bones · Green Day

149 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-27, 97-111 and 141-148 -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 166 BPM
LAZY BONES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 74, 82, 122 and 138.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 11 sections: 127 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-27.

CHORUS
PART C
PART F
PART C
PART G
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAFCGKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lazy Bones?

166 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lazy Bones hard to play on drums?

54 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Lazy Bones?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 74, 82, 122 and 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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