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Wake Me Up When September Ends · Green Day

EXERCISE 12 OF 24
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 49-51)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBCS1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wake Me Up When September Ends on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-46, snare through bars 47-84, toms through bars 85-86 and silence through bars 87-89, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Wake Me Up When September Ends -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-47 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 47-86 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 90-113 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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