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Nice Guys Finish Last · Green Day

EXERCISE 20 OF 48
Run H1 · Part H (bars 24-28)
109 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nice Guys Finish Last on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-30, ride through bars 31-42, hi-hat through bars 43-70, ride through bars 71-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-131.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Nice Guys Finish Last -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-43 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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