Aliens Exist · blink-182

168 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-20, 31-43 and 77-90 -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 212 BPM
ALIENS EXIST · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 21, 26, 29, 45, 47 and 21 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 15 sections: 108 keep time, 27 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-20.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART Q
PART W
PART H
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesEQLHW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aliens Exist?

212 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 Aliens Exist hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Aliens Exist?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 21, 26, 29, 45, 47 and 21 more.

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