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Stuart and the Ave. · Green Day

EXERCISE 13 OF 33
Groove I -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
66 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stuart and the Ave. on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-53 and ride through bars 54-57, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-53 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 30-57 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-71 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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