21 Days · blink-182

138 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 49-56 and 59-60, and 4 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
21 DAYS · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 36, 44, 48, 73, 113 and 6 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 12 sections: 111 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-105.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGPHSA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 21 Days?

132 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 21 Days hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in 21 Days?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 36, 44, 48, 73, 113 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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