Platypus (I Hate You) · Green Day

102 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 10-16 and 22, and 9 more places -- 53% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 178 BPM
PLATYPUS (I HATE YOU) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 17, 21, 27 and 15 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-69.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART H
OUTRO
4 groovesBHS10S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Platypus (I Hate You)?

178 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 Platypus (I Hate You) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Platypus (I Hate You)?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 17, 21, 27 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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