Asthenia · blink-182

177 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56, 58 and 60, and 11 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
ASTHENIA · BAR 168
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 30, 54, 73, 90, 109, 110 and 7 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 109-110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 11 sections: 104 keep time, 13 are fills, 19 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-141.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART R
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGKS1RC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Asthenia?

175 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 Asthenia hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Asthenia?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 30, 54, 73, 90, 109, 110 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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