Paper Lanterns · Green Day

102 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-10, 25-29 and 37-40, and 5 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
PAPER LANTERNS · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 22, 30, 48, 52 and 5 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 13 sections: 64 keep time, 11 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-21.

PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFJMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paper Lanterns?

165 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 Paper Lanterns hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Paper Lanterns?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 22, 30, 48, 52 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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