Always · blink-182

161 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-42, 44-46 and 88-90, and 7 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
ALWAYS · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 21 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 31-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 13 sections: 115 keep time, 27 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-30.

PART G
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO
11 groovesPGAGUY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Always?

156 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 Always hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Always?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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