Suzie Chapstick · Green Day

96 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 34-40, and 4 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
SUZIE CHAPSTICK · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 41, 49 and 8 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suzie Chapstick?

122 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 Suzie Chapstick hard to play on drums?

62 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Suzie Chapstick?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 41, 49 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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