Nice Guys Finish Last · Green Day

131 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 43 and 50, and 12 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 188 BPM
NICE GUYS FINISH LAST · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 22, 30, 42 and 15 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 12 sections: 93 keep time, 21 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-112.

CHORUS
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesCLJHF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nice Guys Finish Last?

188 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 Nice Guys Finish Last hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Nice Guys Finish Last?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 22, 30, 42 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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