Troubled Times · Green Day

89 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-22, 37-44 and 54, and 2 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
TROUBLED TIMES · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 73, 81 and 89.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 7 sections: 41 keep time, 4 are fills, 23 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-36.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCES1S2K+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Troubled Times?

118 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 Troubled Times hard to play on drums?

44 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Troubled Times?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 73, 81 and 89.

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