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She · Green Day

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove I -- Part I
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PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEINAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play She on drums

101 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 2:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-52, ride through bars 53-60, hi-hat through bars 61-84 and ride through bars 85-92, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-34, 61-66 and 73, and 2 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 35, 36, 50 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- I, A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-29 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-69 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-53 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-86 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is She?

186 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 She hard to play on drums?

63 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 She?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 35, 36, 50 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED