Macy's Day Parade · Green Day

96 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-93 -- 96.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
MACY'S DAY PARADE · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 94.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 2 sections: 83 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-93.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Macy's Day Parade?

110 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 Macy's Day Parade hard to play on drums?

42 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Macy's Day Parade?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 94.

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