When I Come Around · Green Day

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-6, 8-14 and 16-20, and 9 more places -- 62% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
WHEN I COME AROUND · BARS 4-5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 7, 23, 25, 27, 31 and 10 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 8 sections: 47 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-22.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When I Come Around?

98 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 When I Come Around hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 When I Come Around?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 7, 23, 25, 27, 31 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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