Adam's Song · blink-182

138 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

136 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

138

LENGTH

4:04

DIFFICULTY

65/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-25, silence through bars 26-27, snare through bars 28-32, toms through bars 33-49 and silence through bars 50-51, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44 and 46, and 10 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----x-----------------|
SD |------------x--------x-----x-----x--x-----------|
T2 |---------------------------------------x--------|
FT |------------------------------------------x--x--|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----------------|

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 88, 113, 114, 115, 116 and 1 more.

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- K, D -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 23-41 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 31-73 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
6. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.