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Pulling Teeth · Green Day

EXERCISE 6 OF 18
Groove C
63 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pulling Teeth on drums

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

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-75.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
Pulling Teeth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-67 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED