Stuart and the Ave. · Green Day

92 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 1:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 11, and 22 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 187 BPM
STUART AND THE AVE. · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 30, 31, 33 and 10 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 8 sections: 65 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-21.

PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIFCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stuart and the Ave.?

187 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 Stuart and the Ave. hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stuart and the Ave.?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 30, 31, 33 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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