Nuclear Family · Green Day

134 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10 and 12, and 10 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 176 BPM
NUCLEAR FAMILY · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 29, 35, 50 and 16 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 9 sections: 95 keep time, 22 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-129.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
4 groovesDICKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nuclear Family?

176 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 Nuclear Family hard to play on drums?

59 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 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 Nuclear Family?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 29, 35, 50 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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