Wake Me Up When September Ends · Green Day

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

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% 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 -- 39.8% 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 · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 58, 74, 84, 105 and 109.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 13 sections: 80 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop 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?

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 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 28 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 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Wake Me Up When September Ends?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 58, 74, 84, 105 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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