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21 Days · blink-182

EXERCISE 33 OF 47
Run G3 · Chorus 3 (bars 106-114)
105 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 21 Days on drums

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

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-73, snare through bars 74-105, ride through bars 106-135 and snare through bars 136-138.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
21 Days -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- G, P -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-28 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-114 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 106-138 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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