Pulling Teeth · Green Day

75 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 34-40 and 42-48, and 1 more place -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
PULLING TEETH · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 67.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 7 sections: 60 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pulling Teeth?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Pulling Teeth hard to play on drums?

56 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Pulling Teeth?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 67.

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