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No One Knows · Green Day

EXERCISE 37 OF 37
Play the whole song with the record
86 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 109 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
BREAK
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesFDS1CS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No One Knows on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-28, ride through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50, ride through bars 51-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
No One Knows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-54 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 76-95 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 83-109 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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