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Lazy Bones · Green Day

EXERCISE 7 OF 32
Groove E
111 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lazy Bones on drums

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

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, snare through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-50, snare through bars 51-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-74, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 38-60 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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