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Still Breathing · Green Day

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesDCS1S8G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Breathing on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, snare through bars 28-43, hi-hat through bars 44-70, snare through bars 71-100 and toms through bars 101-105, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Still Breathing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 62-71 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 98-106 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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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