Warning · Green Day

112 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-23, and 25 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 121 BPM
WARNING · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 34, 35 and 9 more.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BARS 33-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars: 96 keep time, 15 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-110.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Warning?

121 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 Warning hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Warning?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 34, 35 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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