Bored To Death · blink-182

151 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-106 and 127-142 -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BORED TO DEATH · BAR 84
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 23, 24, 36, 42, 66, 74 and 12 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 113-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 13 sections: 112 keep time, 18 are fills, 6 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-106.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGNAIO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bored To Death?

160 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 Bored To Death hard to play on drums?

60 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Bored To Death?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 23, 24, 36, 42, 66, 74 and 12 more.

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