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Bored To Death · blink-182

EXERCISE 25 OF 40
5-bar fill at bar 146
132 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 5
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bored To Death on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-60, toms through bars 61-66, snare through bars 67-112, toms through bars 113-114 and snare through bars 115-116, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    84
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |g-g-g-x-g-g-gggg|
BD |x---x-----x-----|
Bored To Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- N, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-52 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-108 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 103-151 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 113-151 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED