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All The Small Things · blink-182

EXERCISE 20 OF 36
Fill at bar 38 (a small one)
90 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All The Small Things on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, toms through bars 27-30, snare through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-54 and toms through bars 55-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
All The Small Things -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-57 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 63-79 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED