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Minority · Green Day

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 26 PASSED · 43 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Minority on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-62, snare through bars 63-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 21-28 and 30, and 8 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x--g--------x--g--|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
Minority -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 37, 45, 61 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-21 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-75 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Minority?

138 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 Minority hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Minority?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 37, 45, 61 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED