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Longview · Green Day

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFBDICFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Longview on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, toms through bars 39-58, hi-hat through bars 59-66 and toms through bars 67-74, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-38, 59-66 and 75-82, and 1 more place -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-----x--x--x-----x--|
Longview -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 30, 58, 74, 102 and 103.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-123 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-75 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-104 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Longview?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Longview hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Longview?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 30, 58, 74, 102 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED