No One Knows · Green Day

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 35-36 and 40, and 11 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NO ONE KNOWS · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 22, 28, 34, 37, 38, 41 and 13 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 12 sections: 55 keep time, 19 are fills, 5 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-61.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
7 groovesFDS1CS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No One Knows?

120 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 No One Knows hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 No One Knows?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 22, 28, 34, 37, 38, 41 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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