Letterbomb · Green Day

160 bars, 8:32, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
8:32
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 67-69, 71-73 and 75-77, and 6 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
LETTERBOMB · BARS 67-68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 24, 25, 26 and 18 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 14 sections: 102 keep time, 24 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-81.

PART B
PART F
PART O
PART P
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AI
11 groovesYBFAIO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Letterbomb?

75 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 Letterbomb hard to play on drums?

55 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 8:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Letterbomb?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 24, 25, 26 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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