Troublemaker · Green Day

97 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-25 and 27, and 11 more places -- 76.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 141 BPM
TROUBLEMAKER · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 3 sections: 92 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-69.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Troublemaker?

141 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 Troublemaker hard to play on drums?

43 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?

97 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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