Ben Wah Balls · blink-182

177 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 17-22 and 25-30, and 8 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BEN WAH BALLS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 22 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 14 sections: 114 keep time, 28 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-151.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCHNKS11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ben Wah Balls?

210 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 Ben Wah Balls hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ben Wah Balls?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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