Sassafras Roots · Green Day

115 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-28, 38-60 and 70-76, and 4 more places -- 64.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 182 BPM
SASSAFRAS ROOTS · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 29, 36 and 11 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 17 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-28.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFKIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sassafras Roots?

182 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 Sassafras Roots hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sassafras Roots?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 29, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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