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Too Dumb To Die · Green Day

EXERCISE 7 OF 35
Groove E -- Part E
84 / 126 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCHS1I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Too Dumb To Die on drums

126 bars, 7:12, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
7:12
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-58, snare through bars 59-66, hi-hat through bars 67-90, kick and crashes through bars 91-93 and snare through bars 94-102, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 20-22 and 24-26, and 11 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|
Too Dumb To Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 42, 50, 82, 94, 102, 110 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-45 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-80 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-103 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Too Dumb To Die?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Too Dumb To Die hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 7:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Too Dumb To Die?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 42, 50, 82, 94, 102, 110 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED