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A New Hope · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEALNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A New Hope on drums

193 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-38, toms through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-46 and snare through bars 47-48, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 33-38, and 14 more places -- 52.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 39, 40, 47 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E, L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is A New Hope?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A New Hope hard to play on drums?

60 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 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 A New Hope?

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 39, 40, 47 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED