Cynical · blink-182

48 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:39
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28 -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
CYNICAL · BAR 18
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 11 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 5 sections: 12 keep time, 17 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS1FPJS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cynical?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cynical hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Cynical?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 11 more.

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