Blow Job (Live, 1999) · blink-182

25 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 0:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and floor tom.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
0:41
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-8 -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BLOW JOB (LIVE, 1999) · BARS 3-4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 16, 20 and 24.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 4 sections: 14 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-7.

COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blow Job (Live, 1999)?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Blow Job (Live, 1999) hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 0:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Blow Job (Live, 1999)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 16, 20 and 24.

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