After Midnight · blink-182

141 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 85-87, and 9 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
AFTER MIDNIGHT · BARS 45-46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 43, 44, 53, 54, 72 and 7 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 9 sections: 114 keep time, 13 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-29.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIADBSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is After Midnight?

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

Is After Midnight hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 After Midnight?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 43, 44, 53, 54, 72 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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