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When I Come Around · Green Day

EXERCISE 12 OF 30
Join Chorus to Part I (bars 22-24)
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0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When I Come Around on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 3-23, ride through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-47, ride through bars 48-51, hi-hat through bars 52-59 and ride through bars 60-63, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4                5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------x---------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o---o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|----x-------x--x|
BD |x-xx-x--x-xx-x--|x-x---x---xx-x--|
When I Come Around -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-28 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-72 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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