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¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl) · Green Day

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl) on drums

73 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
1:46
DIFFICULTY
84/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-27 and toms through bars 28-29, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 32-33, and 7 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |---x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 28, 29 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-35 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is ¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is ¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl) hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 ¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 28, 29 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED