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Platypus (I Hate You) · Green Day

EXERCISE 22 OF 31
Fill at bar 85 (a small one)
94 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Platypus (I Hate You) on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-23, toms through bars 24-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-45, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Platypus (I Hate You) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-74 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-95 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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