All The Small Things · blink-182

100 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 26, and 11 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 149 BPM
ALL THE SMALL THINGS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34 and 9 more.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 149 BPM
BARS 27-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 9 sections: 65 keep time, 16 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-78.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFMDN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All The Small Things?

149 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 All The Small Things hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 All The Small Things?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34 and 9 more.

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