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Nuclear Family · Green Day

EXERCISE 3 OF 41
Groove H
57 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
4 groovesDICKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nuclear Family on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, toms through bars 14-15, ride through bars 16-17 and toms through bars 18-19, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    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-|
Nuclear Family -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-118 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-119 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-76 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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