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Asthenia · blink-182

EXERCISE 21 OF 49
Join Part K to Part C (bars 72-74)
103 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Asthenia on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-29, hi-hat through bars 30-38, toms through bars 39-54, ride through bars 55-66, hi-hat through bars 67-82 and toms through bars 83-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    168
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Asthenia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-118 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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