Still Breathing · Green Day

142 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 36-38, and 12 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
STILL BREATHING · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 10 sections: 106 keep time and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-99.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesDCS1S8G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Still Breathing?

150 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 Still Breathing hard to play on drums?

57 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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