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Sassafras Roots · Green Day

EXERCISE 16 OF 26
Run K1 · Part K (bars 34-37)
106 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFKIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sassafras Roots on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-29, ride through bars 30-36, hi-hat through bars 37-61 and ride through bars 62-67, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x---x-----|
Sassafras Roots -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-38 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-78 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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