Wake Me Up When September Ends - By Gabrielleao · Green Day

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-50, 55-57 and 59-66, and 6 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS - BY GABRIELLEAO · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 58, 74, 85, 105 and 109.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 13 sections: 81 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-38.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBCS1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wake Me Up When September Ends - By Gabrielleao?

105 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 Wake Me Up When September Ends - By Gabrielleao hard to play on drums?

38 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Wake Me Up When September Ends - By Gabrielleao?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 58, 74, 85, 105 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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