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Ben Wah Balls · blink-182

EXERCISE 15 OF 42
Groove K -- Part K
123 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCHNKS11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ben Wah Balls on drums

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22 and toms through bars 23-24, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Ben Wah Balls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 47-113 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 113-139 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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